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Download full textZwick, Rebecca; Thayer, Dorothy T. – 1994
Several recent studies have investigated the application of statistical inference procedures to the analysis of differential item functioning (DIF) in test items that are scored on an ordinal scale. Mantel's extension of the Mantel-Haenszel test is a possible hypothesis-testing method for this purpose. The development of descriptive statistics for…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Evaluation Methods, Hypothesis Testing, Item Bias
