As Bayesian methods continue to grow in accessibility and popularity, more empirical
studies are turning to Bayesian methods to model small sample data. Bayesian methods do …

One of the primary goals of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) in education is the
comparison of country means in student achievement. The present article introduces a …

A Single Cohesive Framework of Tools and Procedures for Psychometrics and Assessment
Bayesian Psychometric Modeling presents a unified Bayesian approach across traditionally …

Differential item functioning (DIF) is an important issue of interest in psychometrics and
educational measurement. Several methods have been proposed in recent decades for …

An intermediate-level treatment of Bayesian hierarchical models and their applications, this
book demonstrates the advantages of a Bayesian approach to data sets involving inferences …

A new diagnostic tool for the identification of differential item functioning (DIF) is proposed.
Classical approaches to DIF allow to consider only few subpopulations like ethnic groups …

The literature in modern test theory on procedures for identifying items with differential item
functioning (DIF) among two groups of persons includes the Mantel–Haenszel (MH) …

In this article, the Rasch model is used for assessing a mean difference between two groups
for a test of dichotomous items. It is assumed that random differential item functioning (DIF) …

Mixed-effects models (MEMs) and latent growth models (LGMs) are often considered
interchangeable save the discipline-specific nomenclature. Software implementations of …

This paper presents an IRT-based statistical test for differential item functioning (DIF). The
test is developed for items conforming to the Rasch (Probabilistic models for some …