TY - JOUR
AU - Gómez-Benito, Juana
AB - Research related to the detection of item bias or differential item functioning (dif) has proliferated in psychometric and applied psychological literature over the last 25 years. In fact, debate has been heated on the nature and, more particularly, on the methods for bias/dif detection. Today, conditional methods have obtained wide acceptance. However, these methods present a problem of circularity: If the test contains biased items, then a biased measure of the matching variable will be used for investigating dif. Thus, we investigate dif with a biased measure. The aim of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of improving item bias identification through “purification” of the ability measure used. Several bias-detection techniques are analyzed: Mantel-Haenszel statistic, logit model, logistic regression procedure, restricted factor analysis, and two item response theory (IRT)-based indices. Results show that purifying the ability scale improves item bias detection greatly, providing rates of correct identification close to 100% with all these techniques. IRT-based indices showed the greatest improvement.
TI - Effects of Ability Scale Purification on the Identification of dif
JF - European Journal of Psychological Assessment
DO - 10.1027//1015-5759.18.1.9
DA - 2002-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/effects-of-ability-scale-purification-on-the-identification-of-dif-5TpIOEihTa
SP - 9
EP - 15
VL - 18
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -