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Effect Of Gender And Reading Ability On Questions In The Target Language In L2 Listening Tests, Luc Le, Anna Filipi, Bernadette Brouwers
Effect Of Gender And Reading Ability On Questions In The Target Language In L2 Listening Tests, Luc Le, Anna Filipi, Bernadette Brouwers
Dr Luc Tu Le
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Investigating Gender Differential Item Functioning Across Countries And Test Languages For Pisa Science Items, Luc Le
Dr Luc Tu Le
This study uses PISA cycle 3 field trial data to investigate the relationships between gender differential item functioning (DIF) across countries and test languages for science items and their formats and the four other dimensions defined in PISA framework: focus, context, competency, and scientific knowledge. The data used were collected from 60 test language groups by 50 participating countries with a total of about 83,000 15-year-old students. An IRT method is used to detect the gender uniform DIF for each of the language groups and the whole international sample. Gender directions have been drawn for each of the five item …