What’s the DIF? Why Differential Item Functioning Analyses Are an Important Part of Instrument Development and Validation

By Cindy M. Walker. 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research

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In Clinical Psychology

1. C. Bergomi
2. Wolfgang Tschacher
3. Z. Kupper
4. Daniel A. Sass
5. Hui Jia Lim
6. Manish Kumar Dwivedi

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. C. Bergomi
2. Wolfgang Tschacher
3. Z. Kupper
4. Daniel A. Sass
5. Hui Jia Lim
6. Manish Kumar Dwivedi

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. C. Bergomi
2. Wolfgang Tschacher
3. Z. Kupper
4. Daniel A. Sass
5. J. Veale
6. N. Bowen
7. R. Masa
8. Alexandre J. S. Morin

Citations in the corpus

• The Assessment of Mindfulness with Self-Report Measures: Existing Scales and Open Issues (2013, methodology): “Uniform understanding of items across groups should also be addressed in quantitative studies by means of differential item functioning analyses (Walker 2011).”
• Testing Measurement Invariance and Comparing Latent Factor Means Within a Confirmatory Factor Analysis Framework (2011, methodology): “This research has been accompanied by various estimation methods and invariance testing procedures within item response theory (IRT, see Walker, 2011), exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM, see Marsh, Liem, Martin, Nagengast, & Morin, 2011), and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis…”