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Download full textAhmet Yildirim; Nizamettin Koç – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
The present research aims to examine whether the questions in the Program for the International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 reading literacy instrument display differential item functioning (DIF) among the Turkish, French, and American samples based on univariate and multivariate matching techniques before and after the total score, which is…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Analysis, Correlation, Error of Measurement
Direct linkWu, Yi-Jhen; Kiefer, Sarah M.; Chen, Yi-Hsin – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
Learning behavior of East Asian students has been debated due to their striking performance on international large-scale assessments. This study was a comparative study using latent class analysis to examine students' perceptions of learning strategies, students' reported learning strategy use, and the relationships between learning strategies and…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Self Efficacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Cummings, William K.; Bain, Olga – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2017
With the strengthening of the global economy, contemporary societies have come to view the educational achievements of their young people as a major component of national competiveness. But there are substantial variations in the strategies employed by different nations. To maximize educational achievements, some nations believe that the provision…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Competition, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Olsen, Rolf Vegar; Lie, Svein – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
The Programme for International Student Assessment in 2006 included several measures of students' interest in science. These measures were constructed by combining information from several items where students are asked to respond to statements along Likert scale categories. Since there is evidence for Likert scales providing culturally biased…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Student Attitudes, Science Interests, Likert Scales
Yildirim, Huseyin H.; Yildirim, Selda – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2011
Multivariate matching in Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analyses may contribute to understand the sources of DIF. In this context, detecting appropriate additional matching variables is a crucial issue. This present article argues that the variables which are correlated with communalities in item difficulties can be used as an additional…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Multivariate Analysis, Probability, Regression (Statistics)
Lin, Tzung-Jin; Tan, Aik Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
Due to the scarcity of cross-cultural comparative studies in exploring students' self-efficacy in science learning, this study attempted to develop a multi-dimensional science learning self-efficacy (SLSE) instrument to measure 316 Singaporean and 303 Taiwanese eighth graders' SLSE and further to examine the differences between the two student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
