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010 $a 2008049934
020 $a9781412954945 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a1412954940 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn272308737
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050 00 $aHA29$b.O79 2009
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100 1 $aOsterlind, Steven J.
245 10 $aDifferential item functioning /$cSteven J. Osterlind, Howard T. Everson.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aThousand Oaks, Calif. :$bSAGE,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 87 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aQuantitative applications in the social sciences ;$v161
500 $aRevised ed. of: Test item bias.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Audience and requisite background. Role of DIF investigation. Fairness and DIF. Bias and DIF. DIF and discrimination. Understanding the term DIF. Working vocabulary for this monograph. -- Description of DIF: Formal definition of DIF. DIF: Uniform or not -- Statistical facets of DIF: Not mean (average) difference. Error in measurement. Differences are systematic. Matching on ability or proficiency. Conditioning criterion: internal versus external. Purification of data -- Important considerations: DIF: statistics versus reasoned judgment. statistical bias is not unfairness. Whole test versus individual items. Number: items and sample. A sensible perspective -- History of test bias and DIF: Standards for test fairness -- Quick-but-incomplete methods: Ordinal ranking of items. Ability group methods. Outdated ANOVA methods -- Mantel-Haenszel procedure: CHi-Square contingency table. M-H odds ratio -- Nonparametric methods: DIF with SIBTEST. Dorans's standardization -- IRT-based methods: IRT framework. Item response curves. The one-parameter model. The two-parameter model. The three-parameter model. DIF methods based on IRT. Differences in item parameters. Likelihood ratio test. Area measures. IRT approaches for detecting DIF in polytomous items -- Logistic regression: The logistic regression DIF expression. Example of DIF by logistic regression -- Specialized scored items. Computer-based testing. Computer-adaptive testing. Translated tests -- Future Directions: Validity argument. Null hypothesis testing. Statistical modeling (HLM and Other). Equivalence testing. DFIT and CDIF testing.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xStatistical methods.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xMethodology.
700 1 $aEverson, Howard T.
700 1 $aOsterlind, Steven J.$tTest item bias.
830 0 $aQuantitative applications in the social sciences ;$vno. 07-161.