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Goodman, Joshua T.; Dallas, Andrew D.; Fan, Fen – Applied Measurement in Education, 2020
Recent research has suggested that re-setting the standard for each administration of a small sample examination, in addition to the high cost, does not adequately maintain similar performance expectations year after year. Small-sample equating methods have shown promise with samples between 20 and 30. For groups that have fewer than 20 students,…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Sample Size, Sampling, Weighted Scores
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Lu, Ru; Guo, Hongwen; Dorans, Neil J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
Two families of analysis methods can be used for differential item functioning (DIF) analysis. One family is DIF analysis based on observed scores, such as the Mantel-Haenszel (MH) and the standardized proportion-correct metric for DIF procedures; the other is analysis based on latent ability, in which the statistic is a measure of departure from…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Weighted Scores, Test Items, Item Analysis