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Examining The Performance Of The Alignment Method In Dif Analyses, Paulius Satkus, Christine E. Demars
Examining The Performance Of The Alignment Method In Dif Analyses, Paulius Satkus, Christine E. Demars
Department of Graduate Psychology - Faculty Scholarship
The alignment procedure is a new method for multiple group invariance models. An important advantage of alignment over the traditional methods is that alignment does not require full measurement invariance to estimate group means and variances (Muthén & Asparouhov, 2014). Simulation studies have supported that alignment performs adequately in situations when few items are noninvariant (or function differentially across groups – DIF). In most other studies, the tests were simulated to represent attitudinal surveys (e.g., fewer items, continuous data). In this study, we evaluated how alignment would perform with a typical educational cognitive test – 40 items scored dichotomously. Different …