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Devine, Patrick J.; Raju, Nambury S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
Four methods of item bias detection--transformed item difficulty, item discrimination expressed as Clemans' lambda, chi-square, and the three-parameter item characteristic curve--were studied to determine the degree of correspondence among them in identifying biased and unbiased items in reading and mathematics subtests of the 1978 SRA Achievement…
Descriptors: Correlation, Difficulty Level, Item Analysis, Latent Trait Theory