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Direct linkBanks, Kathleen; Jeddeeni, Ahmad; Walker, Cindy M. – International Journal of Testing, 2016
Differential bundle functioning (DBF) analyses were conducted to determine whether seventh and eighth grade second language learners (SLLs) had lower probabilities of answering bundles of math word problems correctly that had heavy language demands, when compared to non-SLLs of equal math proficiency. Math word problems on each of four test forms…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Grade 7
Wright, Keith D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Standardized testing has been part of the American educational system for decades. Controversy from the beginning has plagued standardized testing, is plaguing testing today, and will continue to be controversial. Given the current federal educational policies supporting increased standardized testing, psychometricians, educators and policy makers…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Test Items, Simulation, Testing
Peer reviewedHsu, Louis M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
The problem of determining the significance level which should be used in statistical tests of item validity in order to minimize type I errors is discussed. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Item Analysis, Power (Statistics), Statistical Significance
Ajuonuma, Juliet O. – African Higher Education Review, 2008
This study was designed to carry out a survey of the implementation of continuous assessment (CA) in Nigerian universities. Two research questions and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The sample for the study consisted of 1,340 respondents. A 24 item self-report instrument was used for the study. The data generated, were analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Testing Programs, Test Items
Download full textNandakumar, Ratna; Stout, William – 1992
A detailed investigation of the statistical procedure of W. Stout (the computer program DIMTEST) for testing the hypothesis that an essentially unidimensional latent trait model fits observed binary response data from a psychological test is presented. One finding is that DIMTEST may fail to perform as desired in the presence of guessing when…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics)
