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Differential Item Functioning and Item Bias: Critical Considerations in Test Fairness
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2006 In recent years, policy makers, administrators, and test developers in the field of second language assessment have paid considerable attention to the issue of test fairness.
Michael Perrone
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Psychometric properties of the Flourishing Scale for South African first-year students
African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2023 This study focused on a positive construct of well-being, namely flourishing. In a multicultural and diverse country such as South Africa, it is a legal requirement to provide evidence that measures of psychological constructs, like flourishing, are fair,
Karina Mostert +2 more
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Examining the Fairness of the University Entrance Exam: A Latent Class Analysis Approach to Differential Item Functioning [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2021 Measurement has been ubiquitous in all areas of education for at least a century. Various methods have been suggested to examine the fairness of education tests especially in high-stakes contexts.
Sayyed Mohammad Alavi +2 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2022 The purpose of this study is to examine the distractors of items that exhibit differential item functioning (DIF) across gender to explain the possible sources of DIF in the context of large-scale tests.
Burhanettin Ozdemir, Hanan M. AlGhamdi
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International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2017 This study intended to investigate theoperations of various theory-based Differential Item Functioning (DIF) methodsunder different scoring situations.
Hüseyin Selvi, Devrim Alıcı
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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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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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Purification procedures used for the detection of gender DIF: Item bias in a foreign language test
International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023 Differential item functioning (DIF) detection was handled based on “Mantel-Haenszel (MH)”, “Simultaneous item bias test (SIBTEST)”, “Lord's chi-square”, “Raju's area” methods when item purification was performed or item purification was not performed ...
Serap Büyükkıdık
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Investigating possible causes of bias in a progress test translation: an one-edged sword [PDF]
Korean Journal of Medical Education, 2019 Purpose Assessment in different languages should measure the same construct. However, item characteristics, such as item flaws and content, may favor one test-taker group over another. This is known as item bias.
Dario Cecilio-Fernandes +5 more
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SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2008 This study’s objective was to determine whether the Potential Index Batteries/Situation Specific Evaluation Expert (PIB/SpEEx) conceptualisation (100) ability test displays construct equivalence and item bias for members of five selected language groups ...
Pieter Schaap, Theresa Vermeulen
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