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Estimating the Importance of Differential Item Functioning

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  • Tamás Rudas
  • Rebecca Zwick

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Several methods have been proposed to detect differential item functioning (DIF), an item response pattern in which members of different demographic groups have different conditional probabilities of answering a test item correctly, given the same level of ability. In this article, the mixture index of fit, proposed by Rudas, Clogg, and Lindsay (1994) , is used to estimate the fraction of the population for which DIF occurs, and this approach is compared to the Mantel-Haenszel ( Mantel & Haenszel, 1959 ) test of DIF developed by Holland (1985 ; see Holland & Thayer, 1988) . The proposed estimation procedure, which is noniterative, can provide information about which portions of the item response data appear to be contributing to DIF.

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  • Tamás Rudas & Rebecca Zwick, 1997. "Estimating the Importance of Differential Item Functioning," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, , vol. 22(1), pages 31-45, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jedbes:v:22:y:1997:i:1:p:31-45
    DOI: 10.3102/10769986022001031
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