Determining Gender Differential Item Functioning for Mathematics in Coeducational School Culture

an exploratory study of differential item functioning (dif) in efl reading comprehension

بررسی دلایل عملکرد متفاوت سوالات آزمون درک مطلب به زبان خارجی تاریخچه ی تحقیق درباره ی منابع عملکرد مختلف سوالات (دیف) در آزمون درک مطلب پر است از مجموعه ای از متغیرهای فرضیه ای که چند مورد از مهمترین آنها عبارتند از: جنسیت، آشنایی با موضوع متن، علاقه به موضوع یا محتوای متن، حدس زدن، و عوامل بافت اجتماعی (پی 2004؛ زومبو و گلین 2005). مطالعه حاضر با استناد به فلسفه ی انکارپذیری پوپر عوامل ذکر...

Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in Terms of Gender in the Reading Comprehension Subtest of a High-Stakes Test

Validation is an important enterprise especially when a test is a high stakes one. Demographic variables like gender and field of study can affect test results and interpretations. Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is a way to make sure that a test does not favor one group of test takers over the others. This study investigated DIF in terms of gender in the reading comprehension subtest (35 i...

Gender bias in the sixteen-item Anxiety Sensitivity Index: an application of polytomous differential item functioning.

Gender differences in measures of anxiety sensitivity (AS) are similar to gender differences across anxiety disorders; females exhibit higher levels of AS and a greater prevalence of anxiety disorders than males. The current study confirms higher scores on the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) in females. Further analysis reveals, however, that gender differences on the ASI may arise from a singl...

gender differential item functioning analysis of the university of tehran english proficiency test

the university of tehran english proficiency test (utept) is a high-stakes entrance examination taken by more than 10,000 master’s degree holders annually. the examinees’ scores have a significant influence on the final decisions concerning admission to the university of tehran ph.d. programs. as a test validation investigation, the present study, which is a bias detection research in nature, u...

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