Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning

This paper was an attempt to study differential item functioning in Mathematics between two groups of students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Three different statistical methods were employed to flag items that were differentially functioning. The three methods were: 1 The Mantel-Ha...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Chiang, Lian Hwa.
مؤلفون آخرون: Lam, Peter
التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2009
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20288
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الملخص:This paper was an attempt to study differential item functioning in Mathematics between two groups of students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Three different statistical methods were employed to flag items that were differentially functioning. The three methods were: 1 The Mantel-Haenszel Method 2 A Logistic Regression Method 3 An IRT-LR method, namely the one as implemented by BILOG-MG