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| Autor/inn/en | Schmitt, Alicia P.; Bleistein, Carole A. |
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| Institution | Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. |
| Titel | Factors Affecting Differential Item Functioning for Black Examinees on Scholastic Aptitude Test Analogy Items. Research Report No. 87-23. |
| Quelle | (1987), (56 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Analogy; Black Students; College Entrance Examinations; Difficulty Level; Factor Analysis; High Schools; Higher Education; Item Analysis; Standardized Tests; Test Bias; White Students; SAT (College Admission Test) |
| Abstract | The purpose of this investigation was to identify item factors that may contribute to differential item functioning (DIF) for black examinees on Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) analogy items. Initially, items were classified according to several possible explanatory factors. Preliminary analyses identified several factors that seemed to affect DIF for blacks. Secondly, these factors were further investigated by classifying and analyzing analogy items from two additional SAT forms. Results indicate that black students need more time to complete the SAT verbal sections than do their white counterparts with comparable overall SAT verbal scores. Once DIF statistics were corrected for speededness, a smaller number of analogy items were identified as differentially more difficult. Some of the factors appear to be interdependent; these factors include item position within each analogy set, difficulty, subject content, and level of abstractness. The effects of homographs and semantic relationship types are also confounded with the previous factors. Generalizations to be drawn from these results are limited since analyses are based on regular administration items, which tend to have several factors operating in a single item and which contain infrequent occurrence of some factors. (TJH) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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