A Conceptual Framework for Investigating Test Item Performance With the Mantel-Haenszel Procedure

Standardized tests are frequently used to assess the educational achievement of students in specific content areas (e.g., reading comprehension or mathematics). However, standardized tests have been highly criticized as unfair with little scientific objectivity when assessing the performance of particular racial or minority subgroups. Proponents counter that elaborate procedures involving test specifications, item reviews and sophisticated statistical analyses have been developed to ensure the most valid, unbiased test possible. However, differential subgroup performance continues. Whether these differences can be attributed to educational instruction, educational opportunity, and/or some intrinsic properties of achievement test items has not been resolved.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Ryan, Katherine Elizabeth

Contributors dc:contributor

• Linn, Robert L.,

• Education, Tests and Measurements

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8815417

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69180