Differential item functioning on two tests of EFL proficiency

Alderman, D.L. and Holland, P.W. 1981: Item performance across native language groups on the Test of English as a Foreign Language Princeton: Educational Testing Service.

Alderson, J.C. and Urquhart, A.H. 1985: The effect of students' academic discipline on their performance on ESP reading tests Language Testing 2, 192-204.

Angoff, W. 1989: Context bias in the Test of English as a Foreign Language Princeton: Educational Testing Service.

Bachman, L.F. 1990: Fundamental considerations in language testing Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bachman, L.F. , Davidson, F. , Ryan , K. and Choi, I.-C. . forthcoming: The Cambridge-TOEFL comparability study: final report Cambridge: University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate.

Bachman, L.F. , Kunnan, A. , Vanniarajan , S. and Lynch, B. 1988 : Task and ability analysis as a basis for examining content and construct comparability in two EFL proficiency test batteries Language Testing 5, 128-59.

Briere, E. 1968: Testing ESL among Navajo children In Upshur, J.A. and Fata, J., editors, Problems in foreign language testing. Language Learning Special Issue No. 3. Ann Arbor : Research Club in Language Learning.

Erickson, J. and Molloy, J. 1983: ESP test development for engineering students In Oller, J.W., editor, Issues in language testing research. Rowley, MA: Newbury House, 280-88.

Farhady, H. 1982: Justification, development and validation of functional language tests. Unpublished PhD. dissertation, UCLA.

Hale, G.A. 1988: The interaction of student major-field group and text content in TOEFL reading comprehension Princeton : Educational Testing Service.

Henning, G. 1990: National issues in individual assessment: the consideration of specialization bias in university language screening tests In de Jong, J.H.A.L. and Stevenson, D.K., editors, Individualizing the assessment of language abilities. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 38-50.

Holland, P.W. 1985: On the study of differential item difficulty without IR T Proceedings of the Military Testing Association, October 1985.

Holland, P.W. and Thayer, D. 1986: Differential item performance and the Mantel-Haenszel procedure ETS Research Report No. 86-31. Princeton : Educational Testing Service.

Holland, P.W. and Thayer, D. 1988: Differential item performance and the Mantel-Haenszel procedure In Wainer, H. and Braun, H.I., editors, Test Validity. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Linn, R.L. and Harnisch, D. 1984: Interactions between item content and group membership on achievement test items Journal of Educational Measurement 18, 108-18.

Linn, R.L. , Levin, M. , Hastings , C.N. and Wardrop, J.L. 1981: Item bias in a test of reading comprehension Applied Psychological Measurement 5, 159-73.

Mantel, N. and Haenszel, W. 1959: Statistical aspects of the analysis of data from retrospective studies of disease Journal of the National Cancer Institute 22, 719-48.

McPeek, W.M. and Wild, C. 1986: Performance of the Mantel-Haenszel statistic in a variety of situations Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1986.

Oltman, P.K. , Stricker, L.J. and Barrows , T. 1988: Native language, English proficiency and the structure of the Test of English as a Foreign Language Princeton: Educational Testing Service.

Phillips, A. and Holland, P. 1987: Estimators of the variance of the Mantel-Haenszel logs-odds-ratio estimate Biometrics 43, 425-31.

Politzer, R.L. and McGroarty, M. 1985: An exploratory study of learning behaviors and their relationship to gains in linguistic and communicative competence TESOL Quarterly 19, 103-23.

Ryan, K. 1990: The performance of the Mantel-Haenszel procedure Paper given at the American Educational Research Association , Boston, April 1990.

SAS Institute Incorporated 1988: SAS language guide for personal computers, version 6.03 edition Cary, NC: SAS, Inc.

Schmitt, A. 1988: Language and cultural characteristics that explain differential item functioning Journal of Educational Measurement 25, 1-13.

Scheuneman, J.D. and Gerritz , K. 1990: Using differential item functioning procedures to explore sources of item difficulty and group performance characteristics Journal of Educational Measurement 27, 109-31.

Spurling, S. and Ilyin, D. 1985: The impact of learner variables on language test performance TESOL Quarterly 19, 283-301.

Swaminathan, H. and Rogers, J. 1990: Detecting differential item functioning using logistic regression procedures Journal of Educational Measurement 27, 361-70.

Swinton, S. and Powers, D. 1980: Factor Analysis of the Test of English as a Foreign Language for Several Groups Princeton: Educational Testing Service.

Zwick, R. and Ercikan, K. 1989: Analysis of differential item functioning in the NAEP history assessment Journal of Educational Measurement 26, 55-66.