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Effects Of Student Reading Proficiency On Pisa Mathematics Items – A Dif Study Across Countries, Ray Adams, Luc Le Aug 2009

Effects Of Student Reading Proficiency On Pisa Mathematics Items – A Dif Study Across Countries, Ray Adams, Luc Le

Dr Luc Tu Le

No abstract provided.


Effect Of Gender And Reading Ability On Questions In The Target Language In L2 Listening Tests, Luc Le, Anna Filipi, Bernadette Brouwers Jun 2009

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

No abstract provided.


Investigating Gender Differential Item Functioning Across Countries And Test Languages For Pisa Science Items, Luc Le Dec 2008

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 …


Effects Of Item Positions On Their Difficulty And Discrimination : A Study In Pisa Science Data Across Test Language And Countries, Luc Le Dec 2008

Effects Of Item Positions On Their Difficulty And Discrimination : A Study In Pisa Science Data Across Test Language And Countries, Luc Le

Dr Luc Tu Le

No abstract provided.