Item Bias in the Verbal Segment of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Sat) for High School Students in the United States Virgin Islands

This dissertation reports the findings of an item bias study. The study was undertaken using the modified three parameter item response theory (IRT) technique first proposed by Linn and Harnisch (1981) and recently validated by Shepard, Camilli, and Williams (1985). The population of interest was high school juniors and seniors attending public schools in the United States Virgin Islands. There were two components to the study: (a) a quantitative item analysis using the item bias detection technique indicated above, and (b) a qualitative item analysis of the items identified as biased by the modified IRT technique. The qualitative item analysis was based, in part, on an approach discussed by Carroll (1979).

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Ph.D.

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Dissertation

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Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

1986

Author dc:creator

• Michael, Noreen

• Education, Tests and Measurements

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(UMI)AAI8701567

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69094