Examining differential item functioning due to item difficulty and alternative attractiveness

Examining Differential Item Functioning Due to Item Difficulty and Alternative Attractiveness

A method for analyzing test item responses is proposed to examine differential item functioning (DIF) in multiple-choice items through a combination of the usual notion of DIF, for correct/incorrect responses and information about DIF contained in each of the alternatives. The proposed method uses incomplete latent class models to examine whether DIF is caused by the attractiveness of the alter...

Using Multiple-Variable Matching to Identify EFL Ecological Sources of Differential Item Functioning

Context is a vague notion with numerous building blocks making language test scores inferences quite convoluted. This study has made use of a model of item responding that has striven to theorize the contextual infrastructure of differential item functioning (DIF) research and help specify the sources of DIF. Two steps were taken in this research: first, to identify DIF by gender grouping via l...

A 37-item shoulder functional status item pool had negligible differential item functioning.

OBJECTIVE Measures of shoulder function may differ by dominance of affected shoulder, surgical history, gender, or race. We present a technique for determining whether observed differences in function between groups are due to biased test items or real differences in function. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Four hundred patients who were receiving rehabilitation for a variety of shoulder impairment...

Differential Item Functioning Detection with Logistic Regression

résumé – Détection du fonctionnement différentiel d’items par régression logistique La régression logistique a été utilisée comme une méthode d’identification du DIF dans différents contextes. Certaines études ont montré que cette procédure peut être affectée par des variables comme le ratio des tailles entre groupes, la taille de l’échantillon, et qu’elle semble liée avec les gammes de difficu...

9. Differential Item Functioning In Licensure Tests