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Author : Qu Liu
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Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Evaluating Differential Gender Performance on Large-scale Math Assessments written by Qu Liu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yanling Zhang
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Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Differential Item Functioning in a Large Scale Standardized Mathematics Assessment written by Yanling Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Podevin Reiss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Causal Models of Item Format- and Gender-related Differences in Performance on a Large-scale Mathematics Assessment for Grade Three to Grade Ten written by Patricia Podevin Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren W. Willingham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135454930
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Gender and Fair Assessment written by Warren W. Willingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many important changes in the participation of women and men in American society over the past quarter-century. Tests play a role in those changes by providing evidence of the diverse achievement and proficiency of women and men. They aid the learning process and reflect inequalities in opportunity to learn and participate. In addition, they provide useful information in considering what alternatives in education and work make most sense for individuals and influence views about groups of students, educational programs, and a wide range of issues. For all of these reasons, it is important that tests assess fairly and reflect accurately the ways young people are and are not achieving as well as desired. The test performance of women and men is a research topic of historical interest and has received much attention in recent years. Because of this increased interest, there is a great deal of new research and data available. The purpose of the study presented in this volume was to review this new information with two objectives in mind: *to clarify patterns of gender difference and similarity in test performance and related achievements, and *to see what implications those findings might have for fair assessment and, as a corollary, examine the assessment process as a possible source of gender differences. This study is interested in tests used in education to assess developed knowledge and skill. In order to gain a broader view of gender similarity and difference, the contributors looked at other types of measures and other characteristics of young women and men. Their hope is to contribute to a firmer basis for insuring fairness in tests--an objective which is particularly important as the field moves increasingly to new forms of assessment in which there is less experience.
Author : Jung-eun Ellie Yun
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Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book School Variability and Associated Factors in Within-school Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance written by Jung-eun Ellie Yun and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, education researchers have repeatedly found that male students outperform their female peers on standardized mathematics tests. The attention has turned to factors associated with this phenomenon, with student characteristics and social contexts being a prime focus. Less studied, however, is variability in the magnitude of gender differences in mathematics performance across schools and the impact that school environments might play in this gender difference. The current study seeks to: a) investigate whether differential gender performance exists in a large-scale mathematics assessment and to what extent gender differences vary across schools and b) identify school factors associated with school variability in the size of gender differences in mathematics performance. The current study uses data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) collected in 2015 from 8th graders and high performing 12th graders in the US. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) is the main statistical analysis framework for the study. In particular, this study uses a two-level HLM models with students as the level I model unit and schools or teachers as the level II model unit. The results indicate that for students in both 8th and 12th grades, males perform better than females. There was also substantial variability between schools in the size of the gender difference in mathematics performance. School-level HLM analyses indicate several predictors are associated with the within-school gender gap, such as the presence of a mathematics resource shortage, communication among teachers, teacher confidence, and teacher support of student participation. For high performing12th graders, whether teachers felt their school was safe and orderly was associated with the within-school gender gap in mathematics performance. Further analyses using a teacher-level HLM demonstrate that female teachers and teachers under age 30 are more likely to have classes with a wider gender gap in mathematics performance. In addition, and consistent with results from the school-level HLM, teachers who support student participation are more likely to have classes with a smaller gender gap in mathematics performance. Altogether, this study shows the complexity of the within-school gender gap in mathematics performance and suggests the need for future studies.
Author : Ou Lydia Liu
Publisher : VDM Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783639177114
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Gender Differences on International Mathematics Assessment written by Ou Lydia Liu and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential gender performance on math assessment has received continuing attention in the United States. However, research on math gender differences has been thwarted by the lack of rigorous methodology and the lack of generalizable findings. This book, investigates the math gender issue among fifteen-year olds in the U.S, using multi-year data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), one of the largest international comparison studies. The analyses take advantage of advanced measurement models such as item response models, latent regression models, and mixture models. The results shed light on how various cognitive and noncognitive (i.e., interests, motivation, learning strategies) factors underlie the differential math performance between males and females. This book should be helpful to researchers interested in math gender research and also to researchers interested in the application of advanced measurement models in educational and psychological research.
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Total Pages : 688 pages
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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hong Jiao
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681238950
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Test Fairness in the New Generation of Large?Scale Assessment written by Hong Jiao and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new generation of tests is faced with new challenges. In the K?12 setting, the new learning targets are intended to assess higher?order thinking skills and prepare students to be ready for college and career and to keep American students competitive with their international peers. In addition, the new generation of state tests requires the use of technology in item delivery and embedding assessment in real?world, authentic, situations. It further requires accurate assessment of students at all ability levels. One of the most important questions is how to maintain test fairness in the new assessments with technology innovative items and technology delivered tests. In the traditional testing programs such as licensure and certification tests and college admission tests, test fairness has constantly been a key psychometric issue in test development and this continues to be the case with the national testing programs. As test fairness needs to be addressed throughout the whole process of test development, experts from state, admission, and licensure tests will address test fairness challenges in the new generation assessment. The book chapters clarify misconceptions of test fairness including the use of admission test results in cohort comparison, the use of international assessment results in trend evaluation, whether standardization and fairness necessarily mean uniformity when test?takers have different cultural backgrounds, and whether standardization can insure fairness. More technically, chapters also address issues related to how compromised items and test fairness are related to classification decisions, how accessibility in item development and accommodation could be mingled with technology, how to assess special populations with dyslexia, using Blinder?Oaxaca Decomposition for differential item functioning detection, and differential feature functioning in automated scoring. Overall, this book addresses test fairness issues in state assessment, college admission testing, international assessment, and licensure tests. Fairness is discussed in the context of culture and special populations. Further, fairness related to performance assessment and automated scoring is a focus as well. This book provides a very good source of information related to test fairness issues in test development in the new generation of assessment where technology is highly involved.
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Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Tindal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135653895
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Large-scale Assessment Programs for All Students written by Gerald Tindal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for a comprehensive volume that reviews both the processes and issues involved in developing, administering, and validating large-scale assessment programs has never been greater. These programs are used for many purposes, including instructional program evaluation, promotion, certification, graduation, and accountability. One of the greatest problems we face is how to deal with special needs and bilingual populations. Examining these processes and issues is the mission of this book. It is organized into the following five sections: Introduction, Validity Issues, Technical Issues, Implementation Issues, and Epilogue. Each chapter follows a common structure: Overview of critical issues, review of relevant research, descriptions of current assessment methodologies, and recommendations for the future research and practice. Written by nationally recognized scholars,Large-Scale Assessment Programs for All Students: Validity, Technical Adequacy, and Implementation will appeal to anyone seriously involved in large scale testing, including educators, policymakers, testing company personnel, and researchers in education, psychology, and public policy.
Author : Ming-Chih Lan
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Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Exploring Gender Differential Item Functioning (DIF) on Eighth Grade Mathematics Items for the United States and Taiwan written by Ming-Chih Lan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender differences in mathematics performance have drawn much attention from researchers. Prior to making gender comparisons, a test with unbiased items should be used. Unbiased items are expected to have equal item correct response rates for males and females matched in their abilities. Differential Item Functioning (DIF) techniques have been developed to detect items that exhibit unequal success rates. The focus of this secondary study with the international large-scale TIMSS mathematics assessment was to investigate gender DIF items for eighth grade populations in the U.S. and Taiwan based on ordinal logistic regression and Poly-SIBTest. For DIF items flagged, the study examined the gender DIF patterns across DIF methods, cognitive demand levels, and countries. The study concluded that the total amount of DIF items was low, and the number of items identified as DIF favoring each gender was approximately equal. This gender DIF pattern was consistent across items differing in cognitive demand levels, and in both the U.S. and Taiwan samples. That is, in general, neither males nor females were favored by test items differing in cognitive demand levels. The two DIF techniques were consistent in their abilities to identify DIF and non-DIF items, but the magnitude of DIF identified by the ordinal logistic regression DIF tended to be smaller than the magnitudes identified by the Poly-SIBTest. Although the gender DIF patterns were consistent across the focal countries, the actual items identified as DIF and non-DIF differed because gender DIF items were country-dependent. This has important implications to deal with country-specific gender DIF items in any international assessment programs.
Author : Antony John Kunnan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136634371
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Evaluating Language Assessments written by Antony John Kunnan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating Language Assessments offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical bases and research methodologies for the evaluation of language assessments and demonstrates the importance of a fuller understanding of this widely used evaluative tool. The volume explores language assessment evaluation in its wider political, economic, social, legal, and ethical contexts while also illustrating quantitative and qualitative methods through discussions of key research studies. Suitable for students in applied linguistics, second language acquisition and language assessment and education, this book makes the case for a clear and rigorous understanding of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of language assessment evaluation in order to achieve fair assessments and just institutions.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080448941
Total Pages : 6964 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Education written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 6964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of education has experienced extraordinary technological, societal, and institutional change in recent years, making it one of the most fascinating yet complex fields of study in social science. Unequalled in its combination of authoritative scholarship and comprehensive coverage, International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition succeeds two highly successful previous editions (1985, 1994) in aiming to encapsulate research in this vibrant field for the twenty-first century reader. Under development for five years, this work encompasses over 1,000 articles across 24 individual areas of coverage, and is expected to become the dominant resource in the field. Education is a multidisciplinary and international field drawing on a wide range of social sciences and humanities disciplines, and this new edition comprehensively matches this diversity. The diverse background and multidisciplinary subject coverage of the Editorial Board ensure a balanced and objective academic framework, with 1,500 contributors representing over 100 countries, capturing a complete portrait of this evolving field. A totally new work, revamped with a wholly new editorial board, structure and brand-new list of meta-sections and articles Developed by an international panel of editors and authors drawn from senior academia Web-enhanced with supplementary multimedia audio and video files, hotlinked to relevant references and sources for further study Incorporates ca. 1,350 articles, with timely coverage of such topics as technology and learning, demography and social change, globalization, and adult learning, to name a few Offers two content delivery options - print and online - the latter of which provides anytime, anywhere access for multiple users and superior search functionality via ScienceDirect, as well as multimedia content, including audio and video files
Author : Mo Zhang
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Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Gender Related Differential Item Functioning in Mathematics Tests written by Mo Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria L. Di Tommaso
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Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement written by Maria L. Di Tommaso and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between boys and girls according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we use data from an Italian national level learning assessment, involving children in selected grades from second to tenth. We first analyse the magnitude of the gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately.Our results show that girls systematically underperform boys, even after controlling for an array of individual and family background characteristics, and that the average gap increases with children's age. We then study the gender gap throughout the test scores distribution, using quantile regression and metric-free methods, and find that the differential is small at the lowest percentiles of the grade distribution, but large among top performing children. Finally, we estimate dynamic models relating math performance at two consecutive assessments. Lacking longitudinal data, we use a pseudo panel technique and find that girls' average test scores are consistently lower than those of boys at all school years, even conditional on previous scores.
Author : Yok Mooi Ong
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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Understanding Differential Functioning by Gender in Mathematics Assessment written by Yok Mooi Ong and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Fennema
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807730010
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Mathematics and Gender written by Elizabeth Fennema and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection describes how the Autonomous Learning Behaviours (ALB) model, formulated by Fennema and Peterson, specifically relates to gender differences in mathematics education, learning and performance. The book provides a background to the debate on gender differences; considers the interactions between internal beliefs and external influences, as well as their effects on learning math; and provides a summary of the latest research relevant to the ALB model. Gender differences in learning mathematics is examined from a variety of perspectives, strengthened by longitudinal studies and a cross-cultural American and Australian perspective..
