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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...
Autores principales: | Hope, David, Adamson, Karen, McManus, I. C., Chis, Liliana, Elder, Andrew |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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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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