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Ceuppens, Stijn; Deprez, Johan; Dehaene, Wim; De Cock, Mieke – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
This study reports on the development, validation, and administration of a 48-item multiple-choice test to assess students' representational fluency of linear functions in a physics context (1D kinematics) and a mathematics context. The test includes three external representations: graphs, tables, and formulas, which result in six possible…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematics Tests, Test Construction, Foreign Countries
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Longford, Nicholas T. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
A method for medical screening is adapted to differential item functioning (DIF). Its essential elements are explicit declarations of the level of DIF that is acceptable and of the loss function that quantifies the consequences of the two kinds of inappropriate classification of an item. Instead of a single level and a single function, sets of…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Bias, Simulation, Hypothesis Testing