Differential Item Functioning on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

Utilizing Item Response Theory (IRT) methodologies, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) was examined for differential item functioning (DIF) on the basis of crossed gender and ethnicity variables. Both the Mantel-Haenszel procedure and an IRT area-based technique were utili...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibson, Shanan Gwaltney IV
Other Authors: Psychology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
IRT
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37047
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-93098-11430/