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  • Psychometrics
  • Statistical modeling
  • Educational measurement

Background:

  • Ensuring fairness in surveys and tests is critical.
  • Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analysis assesses item-level measurement invariance.
  • Traditional DIF methods require known comparison groups and anchor items, which are often unavailable.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a general statistical framework for DIF analysis when both comparison groups and anchor items are unknown.
  • To develop a method that simultaneously identifies latent subgroups and DIF items.
  • To provide a computationally efficient algorithm for solving the proposed model.

Main Methods:

  • A novel statistical framework modeling unknown groups via latent classes.
  • Introduction of item-specific DIF parameters.
  • An L1-regularized estimator to simultaneously identify latent classes and DIF items.
  • A computationally efficient Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for optimization.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework effectively handles DIF analysis without prior knowledge of groups or anchor items.
  • Simulation studies demonstrate the method's performance.
  • The approach was successfully applied to real-world educational test data.

Conclusions:

  • The developed statistical framework offers a robust solution for DIF analysis in challenging scenarios.
  • This method enhances the assessment of measurement invariance and fairness in educational and survey instruments.
  • The findings contribute to advancing psychometric methods for detecting item bias.