Differential Item Functioning in High Stakes Tests: Investigating Gender and Field of Study As Construct Irrelevant Factors - Couverture souple

Tayebi, Alireza; Salehi, Mohammad

 
9783848403240: Differential Item Functioning in High Stakes Tests: Investigating Gender and Field of Study As Construct Irrelevant Factors
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3848403242 ISBN 13 : 9783848403240
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Validation is an important enterprise especially when the test to be validated is a high stakes whose results bring about life changing implications for the candidates. A fair test needs to be neutral when it comes to construct irrelevant factors such as demographical variables like gender and field of study, etc. This book reviews and discusses traditional and current views of validity and explains the procedures, techniques, and methods to evaluate it. It provides a comprehensive examination of all key concepts in test validation process, test fairness, along with systematic and user friendly treatment of doing DIF for multiple choice tests of English language proficiency. After exploring the basic considerations underlying the theoretical and practical investigation of differential item functioning and explaining various DIF detection methods and techniques, it offers testing and assessment practitioners step-by-step guidance in using three-step Logistic Regression (LR). This Book is recommended as an authoritative complement to graduate and under graduate teacher-training courses in language testing and assessment, and professional practitioners in this field.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Validation is an important enterprise especially when the test to be validated is a high stakes whose results bring about life changing implications for the candidates. A fair test needs to be neutral when it comes to construct irrelevant factors such as demographical variables like gender and field of study, etc. This book reviews and discusses traditional and current views of validity and explains the procedures, techniques, and methods to evaluate it. It provides a comprehensive examination of all key concepts in test validation process, test fairness, along with systematic and user friendly treatment of doing DIF for multiple choice tests of English language proficiency. After exploring the basic considerations underlying the theoretical and practical investigation of differential item functioning and explaining various DIF detection methods and techniques, it offers testing and assessment practitioners step-by-step guidance in using three-step Logistic Regression (LR). This Book is recommended as an authoritative complement to graduate and under graduate teacher-training courses in language testing and assessment, and professional practitioners in this field.

Biographie de l'auteur

Alireza Tayebi,M.A in TEFL,Sharif University of Technology,is interested in language assessment. He is an instructor at Ghisodin Jamshid kashani Higher Education Institute. Mohammad Salehi,PhD in TEFL,is a faculty member at Sharif Universisty of Technology. He has presented articles worldwide and wrote books on language testing and vocabulary.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3848403242
ISBN 13 
9783848403240
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
Coordonnées du fabricant
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