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- catalog abstract "Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups of examinees and on using this information to improve tests. Of interest to all testing and measurement specialists, it examines modern techniques used routinely to insure test fairness. Three of these relevant to the book's contents are: detailed reviews of test items by subject matter experts and members of the major subgroups in society (gender, ethnic, and linguistic) that will be represented in the examinee population; comparisons of the predictive validity of the test done separately for each one of the major subgroups of examinees; extensive statistical analyses of the relative performance of major subgroups of examinees on individual test items.".
- catalog contributor b3765903.
- catalog contributor b3765904.
- catalog contributor b3765905.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "16. The effect of item screening on test scores and test characteristics / Elizabeth Burton and Nancy W. Burton -- 17. Practical questions in the use of DIF statistics in test development / Michael Zieky -- IV. Ancillary issues. 19. Sensitivity review : the ETS experience as a case study / Paul A. Ramsey -- 20. Testing, DIF, and public policy / Patricia H. McAllister -- 21. The case against item bias detection techniques based on internal criteria : do item bias procedures obscure test fairness issues? / Gregory Camilli -- V. Concluding remarks and suggestions -- Author index -- Subject index.".
- catalog description "8. Comments on the Monte Carlo study of Donoghue, Holland and Thayer / J.O. Ramsay -- 9. Stability of the MH D-DIF statistics across populations / Nicholas T. Longford, Paul W. Holland and Dorothy T. Thayer -- 10. An item response theory model for test bias and differential test functioning / Robin T. Shealy and William F. Stout -- 11. A model for missing information about the group membership of examinees in DIF studies / Nancy L. Allen and Paul W. Holland -- III. Practical questions and empirical investigations. 12. Item and test characteristics that are associated with differential item functioning / Kathleen A. O'Neill and W. Miles McPeek -- 13. Comments on the O'Neill & McPeek paper / Lloyd Bond -- 14. Evaluating hypotheses about differential item functioning / Alicia P. Schmitt, Paul W. Holland, and Neil J. Dorans -- 15. A note on the value of including the studied item in the test score when analyzing test items for DIF / Charles Lewis -- ".
- catalog description "Foreword : DIF : a perspective from the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory / Malcolm J. Ree -- Preface / Paul W. Holland and Howard Wainer -- I. Introduction and Background. 1. Perspectives on differential item functioning methodology / William H. Angoff -- 2. History and development of DIF / Nancy S. Cole -- II. Statistical Methodology. 3. DIF detection and description : Mantel-Haenszel and standardization / Neil J. Dorans and Paul W. Holland -- 4. Detection of differential item functioning using the parameters of item response models / David Thissen, Lynne Steinberg and Howard Wainer -- 5. Different DIFs : comment on the papers read by Neil Dorans and David Thissen / R. Darrell Bock -- 6. Model-based standardized measurement of an item's differential impact / Howard Wainer -- 7. A Monte Carlo study of factors that affect the Mantel-Haenszel and standardization measures of differential item functioning / John R. Donoghue, Paul W. Holland and Dorothy T. Thayer -- ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups of examinees and on using this information to improve tests. Of interest to all testing and measurement specialists, it examines modern techniques used routinely to insure test fairness. Three of these relevant to the book's contents are: detailed reviews of test items by subject matter experts and members of the major subgroups in society (gender, ethnic, and linguistic) that will be represented in the examinee population; comparisons of the predictive validity of the test done separately for each one of the major subgroups of examinees; extensive statistical analyses of the relative performance of major subgroups of examinees on individual test items.".
- catalog extent "xv, 453 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0805809724".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hillsdale : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,".
- catalog subject "371.2/6013 20".
- catalog subject "Examinations Validity.".
- catalog subject "LB3060.62 .D54 1993".
- catalog subject "Test bias Evaluation.".
- catalog subject "Test bias Statistics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "16. The effect of item screening on test scores and test characteristics / Elizabeth Burton and Nancy W. Burton -- 17. Practical questions in the use of DIF statistics in test development / Michael Zieky -- IV. Ancillary issues. 19. Sensitivity review : the ETS experience as a case study / Paul A. Ramsey -- 20. Testing, DIF, and public policy / Patricia H. McAllister -- 21. The case against item bias detection techniques based on internal criteria : do item bias procedures obscure test fairness issues? / Gregory Camilli -- V. Concluding remarks and suggestions -- Author index -- Subject index.".
- catalog tableOfContents "8. Comments on the Monte Carlo study of Donoghue, Holland and Thayer / J.O. Ramsay -- 9. Stability of the MH D-DIF statistics across populations / Nicholas T. Longford, Paul W. Holland and Dorothy T. Thayer -- 10. An item response theory model for test bias and differential test functioning / Robin T. Shealy and William F. Stout -- 11. A model for missing information about the group membership of examinees in DIF studies / Nancy L. Allen and Paul W. Holland -- III. Practical questions and empirical investigations. 12. Item and test characteristics that are associated with differential item functioning / Kathleen A. O'Neill and W. Miles McPeek -- 13. Comments on the O'Neill & McPeek paper / Lloyd Bond -- 14. Evaluating hypotheses about differential item functioning / Alicia P. Schmitt, Paul W. Holland, and Neil J. Dorans -- 15. A note on the value of including the studied item in the test score when analyzing test items for DIF / Charles Lewis -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword : DIF : a perspective from the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory / Malcolm J. Ree -- Preface / Paul W. Holland and Howard Wainer -- I. Introduction and Background. 1. Perspectives on differential item functioning methodology / William H. Angoff -- 2. History and development of DIF / Nancy S. Cole -- II. Statistical Methodology. 3. DIF detection and description : Mantel-Haenszel and standardization / Neil J. Dorans and Paul W. Holland -- 4. Detection of differential item functioning using the parameters of item response models / David Thissen, Lynne Steinberg and Howard Wainer -- 5. Different DIFs : comment on the papers read by Neil Dorans and David Thissen / R. Darrell Bock -- 6. Model-based standardized measurement of an item's differential impact / Howard Wainer -- 7. A Monte Carlo study of factors that affect the Mantel-Haenszel and standardization measures of differential item functioning / John R. Donoghue, Paul W. Holland and Dorothy T. Thayer -- ".
- catalog title "Differential item functioning / edited by Paul W. Holland, Howard Wainer.".
- catalog type "Statistics. fast".
- catalog type "text".