Test Fairness Analysis in Reading Comprehension PhD Nationwide Admission Test Items under CDA

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SHAHMIRZADI NILOUFAR; SIYYARI MASOOD; MARASHI HAMID; GERAMIPOUR MASOUD

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Test Fairness Analysis in Reading Comprehension PhD Nationwide Admission Test Items under CDA

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SHAHMIRZADI NILOUFAR | SIYYARI MASOOD | MARASHI HAMID | GERAMIPOUR MASOUD | Issue Writer Certificate

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Reading ComprehensionQ2

DIFQ1

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CDAQ1

PhD National Admission ExamQ1

Abstract

During the past few decades, documentation of test takers’ proficiency level has been accomplished through large-scale assessments most importantly Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment (CDA) in order to provide skills mastery profile of test takers in fine-grained detailed information, and to ascertain multi-diagnostic mastery or non-mastery classifications. Accordingly, the present study attempts to scrutinize Reading Comprehension test items of a highstakes test under CDA. To delve into this issue, DIFferential Attribute Functioning (DAF) was used to detect the probability of mastery of attributes among test takers, and DIFferential Item Functioning (DIF) was applied to show item performance among DIFferent candidates in terms of gender. Thus, the participants of this study were 3220 females and males attending PhD national admission test in Iran. Through adopting sequential exploratory mixed method design, GDINA model was run by the application of R-studio package. Results of the study revealed that test items suspected DIF against female. In the end, the findings of this study were discussed in light of their implications for language testing community to perceive potential social harm which derived from biased test items in PhD National Admission Exams.

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SHAHMIRZADI, NILOUFAR, SIYYARI, MASOOD, MARASHI, HAMID, & GERAMIPOUR, MASOUD. (2020). Test Fairness Analysis in Reading Comprehension PhD Nationwide Admission Test Items under CDA. FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH JOURNAL (PAZHUHESH-E ZABANHA-YE KHAREJI), 10(1 ), 152-165. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/399750/en

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SHAHMIRZADI NILOUFAR, SIYYARI MASOOD, MARASHI HAMID, GERAMIPOUR MASOUD. Test Fairness Analysis in Reading Comprehension PhD Nationwide Admission Test Items under CDA. FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH JOURNAL (PAZHUHESH-E ZABANHA-YE KHAREJI)[Internet]. 2020;10(1 ):152-165. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/399750/en

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NILOUFAR SHAHMIRZADI, MASOOD SIYYARI, HAMID MARASHI, and MASOUD GERAMIPOUR, “Test Fairness Analysis in Reading Comprehension PhD Nationwide Admission Test Items under CDA,” FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH JOURNAL (PAZHUHESH-E ZABANHA-YE KHAREJI), vol. 10, no. 1 , pp. 152–165, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/399750/en

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