Decision rules based on hypothesis tests and effect sizes for logistic regression differential item functioning

Logistic Regression (LR) has been a technique used for the detection of items exhibiting differential item functioning (DIF). When it was introduced in 1990, the LR was conceptualized as strictly a test of statistical significance. This led to the over-identification of items as DIF, generally not e...

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Main Author: Gesicki, Adam
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54871