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Item Difficulty Bias

Item Difficulty Bias is a form of measurement bias in psychometric testing wherein test items systematically vary in difficulty across different demographic or ability groups, leading to inaccurate inferences about examinee proficiency due to differential item functioning unrelated to the underlying construct being measured.

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A Cross-National Comparison Study on the Accuracy of Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Middle-School Mathematics Students

Peggy Chen, Barry J. Zimmerman · The Journal of Experimental Education · 2007 · 187 citations

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DIFFICULTY FACTORS IN BINARY DATA

Roderick P. McDonald, Kapur S. Ahlawat · British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology · 1974 · 185 citations

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Comparison of Procedures for Detecting test-Item Bias with both Internal and External Ability Criteria

Lorrie A. Shepard, Gregory Camilli, Marilyn Averill · Journal of Educational Statistics · 1981 · 146 citations

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How Biased Are Culture-Loaded Tests?.

Arthur R. Jensen · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) · 1973 · 143 citations

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KT-IDEM: introducing item difficulty to the knowledge tracing model

Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan · International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization · 2011 · 127 citations

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Authors

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  1. CH
    Christine Hohensinn

    University of Vienna, Austria

    3 publications · 83 citations

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    Klaus D. Kubinger

    University of Vienna, Austria

    3 publications · 83 citations

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  3. CA
    Carol A. Chapelle

    Iowa State University, United States

    2 publications · 111 citations

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  4. MR
    Manuel Reif

    University of Vienna, Austria

    2 publications · 69 citations

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  5. LK
    Lale Khorramdel

    Educational Testing Service, United States

    2 publications · 69 citations

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  1. Educational Testing Service

    Princeton, United States

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    233 citations

  2. University of South Florida

    Tampa, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    301 citations

  3. University of Nebraska–Lincoln

    Lincoln, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    209 citations

  4. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    183 citations

  5. GGD Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    442 citations

  6. Nederlandse Spoorwegen

    Utrecht, Netherlands

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    442 citations

  7. Iowa State University

    Ames, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    222 citations

  8. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    192 citations

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  1. Journal of Educational Measurement

    7 publications · 335 citations

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  2. Educational and Psychological Measurement

    5 publications · 67 citations

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  3. Applied Psychological Measurement

    5 publications · 181 citations

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  4. Psychometrika

    4 publications · 117 citations

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  5. Educational Research and Evaluation

    2 publications · 43 citations

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