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Tony Albano; Brian F. French; Thao Thu Vo – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
Recent research has demonstrated an intersectional approach to the study of differential item functioning (DIF). This approach expands DIF to account for the interactions between what have traditionally been treated as separate grouping variables. In this paper, we compare traditional and intersectional DIF analyses using data from a state testing…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Analysis, Data Use, Standardized Tests
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Gabrielson, Stephen; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1995
The effects of presenting a choice of writing tasks on the quality of essays produced by eleventh graders were studied with 34,200 students in Georgia. The choice condition had no substantive effect on the quality of essays, but race, gender, and the writing task variable did. (SLD)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Grade 11, High School Students, High Schools