Rethinking Item Fairness Using Single World Intervention Graphs
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
Published online on February 14, 2026
Abstract
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Since the 1960s, the testing community has striven to ensure fairness in tests and test items. Differential item functioning (DIF) is a widely used statistical notion for items that may unfairly disadvantage specific subgroups of test-takers. However, ...
Since the 1960s, the testing community has striven to ensure fairness in tests and test items. Differential item functioning (DIF) is a widely used statistical notion for items that may unfairly disadvantage specific subgroups of test-takers. However, ...