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International Psychogeriatrics, 2011 Background: Old age respondents may differ systemically in their responses to measures of psychological distress over and above their actual latent distress levels when compared to younger respondents. The current study aimed to investigate the potential
Matthew Sunderland +3 more
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ITEM ARRANGEMENT AND BIAS IN AN INTEREST INVENTORY1 [PDF]
ETS Research Bulletin Series, 1967 Gerald Halpern
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Item Bias Detection using Loglinear IRT [PDF]
Psychometrika, 1989 A method is proposed for the detection of item bias with respect to observed or unobserved subgroups. The method uses quasi-loglinear models for the incomplete subgroup × test score × Item 1 × ... × item k contingency table. If subgroup membership is unknown the models are Haberman's incomplete-latent-class models.The (conditional) Rasch model is ...
H. Kelderman
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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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An investigation of item bias in the four-tier diagnostic test using Rasch model
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE), 2023 The existence of item bias in a set of measuring instruments can threaten the instrument’s validity. Based on the Rasch model, this study evaluated item bias in the four-tier heat and temperature diagnostic test (4T-HTDT).
J. Jumadi +2 more
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Are medical school preclinical tests biased for sex and race? A differential item functioning analysis. [PDF]
BMC Med EducDale ED, Abulela MAA, Jia H, Violato C.
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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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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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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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Multidimensionality and Item Bias in Item Response Theory [PDF]
Applied Psychological Measurement, 1992 This paper demonstrates empirically how item bias indexes based on item response theory (IRT) identify bias that results from multidimensionality. When a test is multidimensional (MD) with a primary trait and a nuisance trait that affects a small portion of the test, item bias is defined as a mean difference on the nuisance trait between two groups ...
Oshima, T. C., Miller, M. David
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