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Differential Item Functioning and Implications for Testing in Nigeria Education System
Indonesian Journal of Learning Education and Counseling, 2022 • The study analyzes and assesses differential item functioning (DIF) by different demographic groups, particularly gender and cultural groupings, in order to produce appropriate test items.
Yinusa Akintoye Faremi, Kasali Jimoh
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Grade-Related Differential Item Functioning in General English Proficiency Test-Kids Listening
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analysis is always an indispensable methodology for detecting item and test bias in the arena of language testing.
Linyu Liao, Don Yao
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DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING ANALYSIS, AN ISSUE ON UMPTN ITEM BANKING WITH IRT PROCEDURES
Buletin Psikologi, 2016 National College Admission Test (Ujian Masuk Perguruan Tinggi Negeri - UMPTN) was first administered to select candidates for five most prominent universities in Indonesia more than fifteen years ago. The system was then improved and has been widely used
Saifuddin Azwar
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DFIT: An R Package for Raju's Differential Functioning of Items and Tests Framework
Journal of Statistical Software, 2017 This paper presents DFIT, an R package that implements the differential functioning of items and tests framework as well as the Monte Carlo item parameter replication approach for producing cut-off points for differential item functioning indices ...
Víctor H. Cervantes
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Real and Artificial Differential Item Functioning in Polytomous Items [PDF]
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014 Differential item functioning (DIF) for an item between two groups is present if, for the same person location on a variable, persons from different groups have different expected values for their responses. Applying only to dichotomously scored items in the popular Mantel–Haenszel (MH) method for detecting DIF in which persons are classified by their
David, Andrich, Curt, Hagquist
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Item-focussed Trees for the Identification of Items in Differential Item Functioning [PDF]
Psychometrika, 2016 A novel method for the identification of differential item functioning (DIF) by means of recursive partitioning techniques is proposed. We assume an extension of the Rasch model that allows for DIF being induced by an arbitrary number of covariates for each item.
Tutz, Gerhard, Berger, Moritz
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Differential item functioning of the UWES-17 in South Africa
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2011 Orientation: South Africa’s unique cultural diversity provides a constant challenge about the fair and unbiased use of psychological measures in respect of their cross-cultural application.
Leanne Goliath-Yarde, Gert Roodt
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Brain and Behavior, 2023 Objectives Dental Anxiety Inventory (DAI‐36) questionnaire is an instrument for assessing dental anxiety. The different perceptions of the questionnaire items in the individual at the same level of underlying dental anxiety may lead to different reported
Narges Roustaei, Elahe Allahyari
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DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING: ITS CONSEQUENCES [PDF]
ETS Research Report Series, 2010 ABSTRACTThis report examines the consequences of differential item functioning (DIF) using simulated data. Its impact on total score, item response theory (IRT) ability estimate, and test reliability was evaluated in various testing scenarios created by manipulating the following four factors: test length, percentage of DIF items per form, sample sizes
Yi‐Hsuan Lee, Jinming Zhang
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CULTURAL BIAS IN LANGUAGE TESTING
TEFLIN Journal, 2006 An issue that has recently been gaining more attention in the domain of language testing is item bias. Defined as the characteristic of an item which causes learners of the same abilities but of different social groups to perform differently, the bias ...
Patrisius Istiarto Djiwandono
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