A confirmatory study of Differential Item Functioning on EFL reading comprehension

The present study aimed at investigating DIF sources on an EFL reading comprehension test. Accordingly, 2 DIF detection methods, logistic regression (LR) and item response theory (IRT), were used to flag emergent DIF of 203 (110 females & 93 males) Iranian EFL examineesâ performance on a reading...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alireza Ahmadi, Touraj Jalili
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Isfahan 2014-08-01
Series:Applied Research on English Language
Subjects:
DIF
LR
IRT
Online Access:http://are.ui.ac.ir/article_15489_9e33df94cd1abc40c3dc9bcb612ad100.pdf