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Investigating Item Bias in a CS1 Exam with Differential Item Functioning

Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021
Reliable and valid exams are a crucial part of both sound research design and trustworthy assessment of student knowledge. Assessing and addressing item bias is a crucial step in building a validity argument for any assessment instrument. Despite calls for valid assessment tools in CS, item bias is rarely investigated.
Matt J. Davidson   +3 more
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Reducing Item-Specific Nonresponse Bias

The Journal of Experimental Education, 1978
This article describes a method of dealing with partially-responded-to questionnaires in survey research which utilizes nonparametric Bayesian discriminant analysis to predict missing responses based on “profiles” of the partial and the “complete” respondents. Some background of nonresponse bias in survey research is discussed, and two other methods of
Norval F. Pohl, Albert V. Bruno
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