Real and Artificial Differential Item Functioning

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 387-416

  Andrich, David ^a   Hagquist, Curt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Karlstad Business School   (Sweden)

Author keywords

differential item functioning; Mantel Haenszel; Rasch models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865285018     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998611411913     Document Type: Article

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