Differential Item Functioning and Opportunity to Learn: Adjusting the Mantel-Haenszel Chi-Square Procedure

Test fairness is an omnipresent educational and political issue. The validity of a test is in question whenever any group feels its members are not being treated exactly like everyone else. Differential item functioning (DIF) refers to a test item that does not perform the same way for two groups of examinees after controlling for ability.

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

• Switzer, Deborah Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Harnisch, Delwyn L.

• Education, Tests and Measurements
• Education, Educational Psychology

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9329175

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71950