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Jung Yeon Park; Sean Joo; Zikun Li; Hyejin Yoon – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2025
This study examines potential assessment bias based on students' primary language status in PISA 2018. Specifically, multilingual (MLs) and nonmultilingual (non-MLs) students in the United States are compared with regard to their response time as well as scored responses across three cognitive domains (reading, mathematics, and science).…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment, Test Bias
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Xuelan Qiu; Jimmy de la Torre; You-Gan Wang; Jinran Wu – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
Multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) items have been found to be useful to reduce response biases in personality assessments. However, conventional scoring methods for the MFC items result in ipsative data, hindering the wider applications of the MFC format. In the last decade, a number of item response theory (IRT) models have been developed,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Personality Assessment
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Angela Johnson; Elizabeth Barker; Marcos Viveros Cespedes – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
Educators and researchers strive to build policies and practices on data and evidence, especially on academic achievement scores. When assessment scores are inaccurate for specific student populations or when scores are inappropriately used, even data-driven decisions will be misinformed. To maximize the impact of the research-practice-policy…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inclusion, Evaluation Methods, Error of Measurement