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Lee, Yi-Hsuan; Zhang, Jinming – ETS Research Report Series, 2010
This report examines the consequences of differential item functioning (DIF) using simulated data. Its impact on total score, item response theory (IRT) ability estimate, and test reliability was evaluated in various testing scenarios created by manipulating the following four factors: test length, percentage of DIF items per form, sample sizes of…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Scores
Nandakumar, Ratna; Yu, Feng – 1994
DIMTEST is a statistical test procedure for assessing essential unidimensionality of binary test item responses. The test statistic T used for testing the null hypothesis of essential unidimensionality is a nonparametric statistic. That is, there is no particular parametric distribution assumed for the underlying ability distribution or for the…
Descriptors: Ability, Content Validity, Correlation, Nonparametric Statistics