Differential item functioning
- Responsibility
- Steven J. Osterlind, Howard T. Everson.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Imprint
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2009.
- Physical description
- x, 87 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Series
- Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-161.
Access
Available online

Education Library (Cubberley)
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Call number | Status |
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HA29 .O79 2009 | Unknown |
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Osterlind, Steven J.
- Contributor
- Everson, Howard T.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
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- About the Authors Series Editor's Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Description of DIF 3. Statistical Facets of DIF 4. Important Considerations 5. History of Test Bias and DIF 6. Quick-But-Incomplete Methods 7. Mantel-Haenszel Procedure 8. Nonparametic Methods 9. IRT-Based Methods 10. Logistic Regression 11. Specialized DIF Procedures 12. Future Directions Conclusion References Author Index Subject Index.
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- Publisher's Summary
- Differential Item Functioning, Second Edition is a revision of the 1983 title Test Item Bias. In the past 23 years, differential item performance has assumed a level of attention unimagined in the early 1980s. Then, only a few tests and assessment programs attended to "item bias, " while doing so is now a mandatory step in any responsible assessment program. Also, technical advances, such as the widespread use of item response theory, have pushed the field of differential performance to levels of technical sophistication far beyond what was practiced years ago. This new edition presents an up-to-date description of DIF; describes varying procedures for addressing DIF in practical testing contexts; presents useful examples and studies of DIF that readers may employ as a guide in their own DIF work; and briefly describes relevant features of major statistical packages that can be employed in DIF analysis (e.g., SPSS, SAS, M+, Minitab, and Systat). This text is ideal for the measurement professional or advanced student who deals with educational or psychological assessment. Readers need only have a preliminary background in tests and measurement, including some beginning statistics and elementary algebra, in order to find this volume useful.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2009
- Series
- Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 161
- Note
- Revised ed. of: Test item bias.
- Related Work
- Osterlind, Steven J. Test item bias.
- ISBN
- 9781412954945 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 1412954940 (pbk. : acid-free paper)