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100 1 Xie, Yiyu
245 10 Three studies of person by item interactions in
international assessments of educational achievement
|h[electronic resource]
300 104 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-
08, Section: A, page: 2902
500 Chair: Mark Wilson
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2005
520 This dissertation consists of three independent
investigations of interactions between persons and items
associated with cultural differences in international
assessments of educational achievement. It uses some
modified item response models to account for influential
elements that are valued differently among nations. The
research tackles three specific issues: (1) whether using
the measurement unit (imperial versus metric) in the
mathematics assessment has an impact on American students'
performances; (2) is the tendency to guess in the
assessments that adopt the multiple-choice item format
constant across nations; and (3) how to make substantive
interpretations of the items that exhibit differential
item functioning (DIF). Each investigation has its own
emphasis varying from test design to model comparison.
Together they use a wide range of international assessment
data including data for selected countries from the Third
International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The
research also employs a variety of computer programs, i.e.,
ConQuest, WinBUGS, and the NLMIXED procedure of SAS, all
the programs have the flexibility of customizing the item
response models for many test situations. All three
studies indicate that interactions between the examinees
and items may vary systematically from country to country,
and item response models need to be carefully selected for
the purpose of comparison in the international assessments
590 School code: 0028
650 4 Education, Tests and Measurements
650 4 Psychology, Psychometrics
650 4 Education, Mathematics
690 0288
690 0632
690 0280
710 20 University of California, Berkeley
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