Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development · 2007 · 21 citations · 40 references
Social SciencesEducational MeasurementPsychologyDifferential Item FunctioningPsychometricsScale DevelopmentItem AnalysisItem Characteristic CurvesLatent Trait ModelingPsychological TestingTest ReliabilityPsychometric ReliabilityPsychometric ScalingPsychometric ValidityRasch Dimensionality AnalysisRasch Measurement TheoryRasch Model AnalysisRasch Model FitStandardized Residuals
The author used Rasch measurement to examine the reliability and validity of 3S2 Korean university students’ scores on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS; D. P. Crowne & D. Marlowe, I960). Results revealed that item-fi & statistics and principal component analysis with standardized residuals provide evidence of MCSDS’s unidimensionality Six (of 33) items displayed differential item functioning for gender.
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