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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Main Author: Chiang, Lian Hwa.
Other Authors: Lam, Peter
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Published: 2009
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-202882020-11-01T06:11:23Z Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning Chiang, Lian Hwa. Lam, Peter National Institute of Education DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::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-Haenszel Method 2 A Logistic Regression Method 3 An IRT-LR method, namely the one as implemented by BILOG-MG Master of Education 2009-12-14T09:28:20Z 2009-12-14T09:28:20Z 1997 1997 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20288 en NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 92 p. application/pdf
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Chiang, Lian Hwa.
Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning
description 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
author2 Lam, Peter
author_facet Lam, Peter
Chiang, Lian Hwa.
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author Chiang, Lian Hwa.
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title Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning
title_short Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning
title_full Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning
title_fullStr Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning
title_full_unstemmed Differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning
title_sort differential item functioning between ethnic groups analysed in the context of multimodal learning
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