Examining the Fairness of the University Entrance Exam: A Latent Class Analysis Approach to Differential Item Functioning

Measurement has been ubiquitous in all areas of education for at least a century. Various methods have been suggested to examine the fairness of education tests especially in high-stakes contexts. The present study has adopted the newly proposed ecological approach to differential item functioning (...

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Main Authors: Sayyed Mohammad Alavi, Hossein Karami, Mohammad Hossein Kouhpaeenejad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2021-06-01
Series:Issues in Language Teaching
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Online Access:https://ilt.atu.ac.ir/article_13102_ddc42f95a4ad12efa8127875522f01ac.pdf