Identification of items that show nonuniform DIF

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 257-274

  Narayanan, Pankaja ^a   Swaminathan, H ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential item functioning; Logistic regression statistic; Mantel Haenszel statistic; Nondirectional DIF; SIBTEST; Simultaneous item bias statistic; Type I error rate; Unidirectional DIF

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030359555     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014662169602000306     Document Type: Article

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