Lord's chi-square test of item bias with estimated and with known person parameters

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Lord's chi-square test of item bias with estimated and with known person parameters

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1987

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Properties of Lord’s chi-square test of item bias were studied in a computer simulation. 0 parameters were drawn from a standard normal distribution and responses to a 50-item test were generated using SAT-v item parameters estimated by Lord. One hundred independent samples were generated under each of the four combinations of two sample sizes (N = 1,000 and N = 250) and two logistic models (two- and three-parameter). LOGIST was used to estimate item and person parameters simultaneously. For each of the 50 items, 50 independent chi-square tests of the equality of item parameters were calculated. Proportions of significant chi-squares were calculated over items and samples, at alpha levels of .0005, .001, .005, .01, .05, and .10. The overall proportions significant were as high as 11 times the nominal alpha level. The proportion significant for some items was as high as .32 when the nominal alpha level was .05. When person parameters were held fixed at their true values and only item parameters were estimated, the actual rejection rates were close to the nominal rates.

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McLaughlin, Mary E & Drasgow, Fritz. (1987). Lord's chi-square test of item bias with estimated and with known person parameters. Applied Psychological Measurement, 11, 161-173. doi:10.1177/014662168701100205

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McLaughlin, Mary E.; Drasgow, Fritz. (1987). Lord's chi-square test of item bias with estimated and with known person parameters. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/103980.

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