Using differential item functioning to evaluate potential bias in a high stakes postgraduate knowledge based assessment

BACKGROUND: Fairness is a critical component of defensible assessment. Candidates should perform according to ability without influence from background characteristics such as ethnicity or sex. However, performance differs by candidate background in many assessment environments. Many potential cause...

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Autores principales: Hope, David, Adamson, Karen, McManus, I. C., Chis, Liliana, Elder, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29615016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1143-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29615016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1143-0

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