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Differential item functioning due to gender between depression and anxiety items among Chilean adolescents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Although much is known about the higher prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders among adolescent females, less is known about the differential item endorsement due to gender in items of commonly scales used to measure anxiety and depression.
Achenbach T.M.   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Multilevel Generalized Mantel-Haenszel for Differential Item Functioning Detection

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2019
Research has demonstrated that when data are collected in a multilevel framework, standard single level differential item functioning (DIF) analyses can yield incorrect results, particularly inflated Type I error rates.
Brian F. French   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The ABFM Begins to Use Differential Item Functioning [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2013
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) believes that it is important to have evidence to show that the pass-fail decisions related to its examinations are based upon accurately determining the minimum knowledge necessary to be a board certified family physician, and furthermore, that these decisions are unbiased against any particular subset of ...
Michael R. Peabody   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Brazilian WHOQOL-OLD module version: a Rasch analysis of a new instrument [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the Brazilian version of WHOQOL-OLD Module and to test potential changes to the instrument to increase its psychometric adequacy.
Chachamovich, Eduardo   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

An analysis of differential item functioning by gender in the Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire (LDSQ) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire (LDSQ; McKenzie & Paxton, 2006) was developed as a brief screen for intellectual disability. Although several previous studies have evaluated the LDSQ with respect to its utility as a clinical and research ...
Booth, Tom   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Assessing Differential Item Functioning and Differential Test Functioning in an Academic Motivation Scale using Item Response Theory methods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Social work researchers and practitioners who use measurement instruments to make data-informed decisions need to ensure those decisions are based on items and scales that are free from possible bias or undesirable differential functioning. In this study,
Bean, Gerald J.
core   +2 more sources

Differential Item Functioning

open access: yes, 2012
1.-Los que estan interesados en el tema lo conocen. 2.-Los que no lo conocen, no estan interesados en el tema. Si la primera proposicion es cierta y alguien lee esta revision, debo suponer que busca mas el juicio que la informacion. Y el buen juicio se encuentra en el buen juez.
Howard Wainer, Paul W. Holland
openaire   +2 more sources

DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING ANALYSIS, AN ISSUE ON UMPTN ITEM BANKING WITH IRT PROCEDURES

open access: yesBuletin 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
doaj   +1 more source

Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in composite health measurement scale: Recommendations for characterizing DIF with meaningful consequences within the Rasch model framework

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Objective The aims were to review practices concerning Differential Item Functioning (DIF) detection in composite measurement scales, particularly those used in health research, and to provide guidance on how to proceed if statistically significant DIF ...
A. Rouquette   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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