The Langer-Improved Wald Test for DIF Testing With Multiple Groups: Evaluation and Comparison to Two-Group IRT

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 532-547

  Woods, Carol M ^a   Cai, Li ^b   Wang, Mian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

differential item functioning; IRT LR DIF; item response theory; Wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876970432     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164412464875     Document Type: Article

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