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

• Main Author: Chiang, Lian Hwa.
• Other Authors: Lam, Peter
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Learning
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20288
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...