Characteristics of Quantitative Word Items Associated with Differential Performance for Female and Black Examinees.

Scheuneman, Janice Dowd; Grima, Angela

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Publication Date: 1997

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Characteristics of Quantitative Word Items Associated with Differential Performance for Female and Black Examinees.

Scheuneman, Janice Dowd; Grima, Angela

Applied Measurement in Education, v10 n4 p299-319 1997

Differential item functioning for female-male and black-white groups and two samples of white males who differed in mathematical training were studied using data from 104 items from the Graduate Record Examination. Verbal properties of items were associated with differential performance of men and women but not of blacks and whites. (SLD)

Descriptors: Black Students, Females, Item Bias, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Racial Differences, Sex Differences, Test Items, Whites, Word Problems (Mathematics)

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