Absence of item origin bias on a Brazilian interinstitutional Progress Test examination: A pooled analysis of items approach.
Hamamoto Filho PT; Hafner MLMB; Ribeiro ZMT; Lima ARA; Diehl LA; Costa NT; de Andrade MC; Yarak S · 2025 · PloS one
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Abstract (excerpt)
Background It has been proposed that the school origin of items for cross-institutional Progress Tests (PTs) may introduce a bias in favour of students from the same school, posing a potential threat to the validity and reliability of PT…
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Metadata source: Europe PMC · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0325734