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Investigating the Impact of Item Parameter Drift for Item Response Theory Models with Mixture Distributions

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
This study investigates the impact of item parameter drift (IPD) on parameter and ability estimation when the underlying measurement model fits a mixture distribution, thereby violating the item invariance property of unidimensional item response theory (
Yoon Soo ePark, Young-Sun eLee, Kuan eXing   +2 more
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The Parental Stress Scale revisited: Rasch-based construct validity for Danish parents of children 2–18 years old with and without behavioral problems

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background Experiencing parental stress is common among parents of children of all ages and is elevated in families characterized by stressors such as poverty, mental health problems, and developmental problems. The Parental Stress Scale (PSS) is a short
Tine Nielsen, Maiken Pontoppidan, Signe Boe Rayce   +2 more
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Test item response time and the response likelihood [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
Test takers do not give equally reliable responses. They take different responding strategies and they do not make the same effort to solve the problem and answer the question correctly. The consequences of differential test takers' behavior are numerous: the test item parameters could be biased, there might emerge differential item functioning for ...
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anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data

Journal of Statistical Software, 2011
When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased.
Jonathan Wand, Gary King, Olivia Lau
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Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the family adaptability and cohesion scale (FACES III) through item response theory models in students from Chile and Colombia

BMC Psychology
Background A psychometric study of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale (FACES III) has been conducted in Spanish-speaking countries from the perspective of the classical test theory.
Lindsey W. Vilca, Víctor Díaz-Narváez, Wilson Pastén Hidalgo, Nicolás Van Niekerk Bakit, Paula Moreno Reyes, Yaneth Herazo-Beltrán, Aura Gauna-Quiñonez, Alejandro Reyes-Reyes, Luz Marina Alonso Palacio, Marco Cervantes Mendoza   +9 more
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Differential Item Functioning of the region-based national examination equipment

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)
This research aims to detect Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in the 2014/2015 National Examination Questions in mathematics of junior high schools and equivalent-level schools in the Yogyakarta region as a reference group and the South Kalimantan ...
Adi Setiawan, Gulzhaina Kuralbaevna Kassymova, Vianney Mbazumutima, Anggit Reviana Dewi Agustyani   +3 more
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Measurement Comparability of Reading in the English and French Canadian Populations: Special Case of the 2011 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study

Frontiers in Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine item equivalence and score comparability of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 for the Canadian French and English language groups.
Shawna Goodrich, Kadriye Ercikan
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Funcionamento diferencial dos itens do Teste Cloze por Opção

Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 2011
This study analyzed the differential item functioning of Teste Cloze por Opção EM/U that assess collectively reading comprehension. The subjects were 489 students.
Maria Cristina Rodrigues Azevedo Joly, Nayane Martoni Piovezan   +1 more
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Compatibility Family Learning for Item Recommendation and Generation [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
Compatibility between items, such as clothes and shoes, is a major factor among customer's purchasing decisions. However, learning "compatibility" is challenging due to (1) broader notions of compatibility than those of similarity, (2) the asymmetric nature of compatibility, and (3) only a small set of compatible and incompatible items are observed. We
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Examination of differential item functioning in PISA through univariate and multivariate matching differential item functioning

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education
The present research aims to examine whether the questions in the Program for the International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 reading literacy instrument display differential item functioning (DIF) among the Turkish, French, and American samples based ...
Nizamettin Koç, Ahmet Yıldırım
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