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Ramsay-Curve Differential Item Functioning
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Woods, Carol M. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2011
Differential item functioning (DIF) occurs when an item on a test, questionnaire, or interview has different measurement properties for one group of people versus another, irrespective of true group-mean differences on the constructs being measured. This article is focused on item response theory based likelihood ratio testing for DIF (IRT-LR or…
Descriptors: Simulation, Item Response Theory, Testing, Questionnaires