A Comparative Study ofClassical Test Theory and Item Response Theory in Dectecting Differential Item Functioning
A reexamination of Lord's Wald test for differential item functioning using item response theory and modern error estimation
... (2001) study provided evidence that a MH method, specifically GMH, can effectively detect DIF among more than two groups, there are several ...manipulating item discrimination between groups (probably ...
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An overview of differential item functioning in multistage computer adaptive testing using three-parameter logistic item response theory
... when test scores have multiple correlations with non-test variables for two or more groups of ...in differential predictive validity of the measure. This differential validity or lack of ...
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A confirmatory study of Differential Item Functioning on EFL reading comprehension
... present study aimed at investigating DIF sources on an EFL reading comprehension ...and item response theory (IRT), were used to flag emergent DIF of 203 (110 females & 93 males) Iranian ...
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Differential Item Functioning: Item Level Analysis of TIMSS Mathematics Test Items Using Australian and Indonesian Database
... (2007) study, test adaptations play an important ...of item were given, some statistical and judgmental procedures used in the analyses were also ...defined. Item response theory ...
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Re-evaluating a vision-related quality of life questionnaire with item response theory (IRT) and differential item functioning (DIF) analyses
... mate item parameters for subgroups; those parameters can subsequently be used to estimate the person para- meter ( θ s ) ...the item. In the present study, items were removed on the basis of the ...
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IRT in Item Banking, Study of DIF Items and Test Construction : Item Response Theory in Item Banking, Study of Differentially Functioning Items and Test Construction
... Classical Test Theory (CTT) had been a sole principle of measurement for the measurement specialists until ...1970s, Item Response Theory (IRT) began to pick up momentum among the ...
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Differential item functioning and ad hoc interpretations
... the item was surprisingly favoring the “Science and Technology” ...this item, an informant (C) stated that “All alternatives seem to be more familiar to Humanities ...the theory and whose sole ...
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Expert knowledge elicitation using item response theory
... for j = 1, ..., n. Note that depending on the choices of the prior distributions the computation can become challenging. Albert (1992) proposed a general procedure for the two-parameters normal IRT model, using a data ...
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ITEM RESPONSE THEORY (IRT) FOR ASSESSING STUDENT PROFICIENCY
... Classical Test theory provides easy approach for assessing students’ achievement but it takes in to account the overall performance of the student in a given ...individual test items. We know that ...
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Building an Evaluation Scale using Item Response Theory
... requires test- ing against a previously vetted gold-standard test set and reporting standard metrics (ac- ...given test set are equal with regards to difficulty and discrim- inating ...propose ...
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Detection of Uniform and Nonuniform Differential Item Functioning by Item Focussed Trees
... DIF detection based on the logistic regression model as described in the previous section has some limitations and drawbacks. If one uses the traditional version with G groups, DIF can be induced only by group ...
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Computerized Adaptive Test based on Item Response Theory in E Learning System
... In general, the principle of CAT begins with initialization of the student's ability to assume the student has the ability to provide about the medium and medium difficulty levels anyway. The selection of the next ...
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Effects of Differential Item Discriminations between Individual Level and Cluster Level under the Multilevel Item Response Theory Model
... the item discriminations to vary freely across items in a ...of item discriminations are different between individual and cluster ...in item discriminations between levels were beyond his ...
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Problems with the factor analysis of items: Solutions based on item response theory and item parcelling
... an item should be reflected in a confirmatory factor ...each item (Little et ...each item may be seen as an alternative and equivalent indicator of the construct or ...
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Personalised mobile learning system based on item response theory
... Item response theory is a model-based approach to select the most appropriate items for examinees based on mathematics relationship between abilities and item ...called Item ...
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Utilising item response theory in computing corporate governance indices
... Consequently, this paper will discuss how to improve data aggregation for the purpose of creating a scientifically robust, unambiguous methodology in the pursuit of quantifying multi- country indices utilising ...
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Quality of School Exam Tests Based on Item Response Theory
... using item response theory approaches, especially in elementary school exam ...classical test theory, and even this is rarely ...to item response theory based ...
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The application of Item Response Theory on a teaching strategy profile questionnaire
... the Item Response Theory (IRT), where the actual perception of the items can be accounted ...this study and compared with the conventional sum ...mathematical theory can be found in [6] ...
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Using Item Response Theory to Improve Locally-Constructed Multiple
... facto” study was to demonstrate how concepts from Item Response Theory can be used to detect and remove psychometrically faulty items, and how the remaining items can be used by teachers to ...
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Psychometric Classical Theory Test and Item Response Theory Validation of Patients’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Uncomplicated Malaria Instrument
... this study have shown the importance of using CTT and IRT in reducing misfit items to arrive at a reliable and valid PKAPIUM scale that is useful for assessing patients’ KAP on uncomplicated malaria dis- ease and ...
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