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Gender Bias in Test Item Formats: Evidence from PISA 2009, 2012, and 2015 Math and Reading Tests by Shear, Benjamin R.

“…Large‐scale standardized tests are regularly used to measure student achievement overall and for student subgroups. These uses assume tests provide comparable…”
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Causal Inference and COVID: Contrasting Methods for Evaluating Pandemic Impacts Using State Assessments by Shear, Benjamin R.

“…In the spring of 2021, just 1 year after schools were forced to close for COVID‐19, state assessments were administered at great expense to provide data about…”
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Measurement issues in causal inference by Shear, Benjamin R., Briggs, Derek C.

“…Research in the social and behavioral sciences relies on a wide range of experimental and quasi-experimental designs to estimate the causal effects of specific…”
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Using Hierarchical Logistic Regression to Study DIF and DIF Variance in Multilevel Data by Shear, Benjamin R.

“…When contextual features of test-taking environments differentially affect item responding for different test takers and these features vary across test…”
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Using Pooled Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Improve Small-Sample Estimates of Latent Test Score Distributions by Shear, Benjamin R., Reardon, Sean F.

“…This article describes an extension to the use of heteroskedastic ordered probit (HETOP) models to estimate latent distributional parameters from grouped,…”
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Assessment for Monitoring of Education Systems: The U.S. Example by FAHLE, ERIN M., SHEAR, BENJAMIN R., SHORES, KENNETH A.

“…Standardized tests are regularly used as education system monitoring tools to compare the average performance of students living in different states or…”
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Using Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Recover Moments of Continuous Test Score Distributions From Coarsened Data by Reardon, Sean F., Shear, Benjamin R., Castellano, Katherine E., Ho, Andrew D.

“…Test score distributions of schools or demographic groups are often summarized by frequencies of students scoring in a small number of ordered proficiency…”
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False Positives in Multiple Regression: Unanticipated Consequences of Measurement Error in the Predictor Variables by Shear, Benjamin R., Zumbo, Bruno D.

“…Type I error rates in multiple regression, and hence the chance for false positive research findings, can be drastically inflated when multiple regression…”
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Flexible Bayesian Models for Inferences From Coarsened, Group-Level Achievement Data by Lockwood, J. R., Castellano, Katherine E., Shear, Benjamin R.

“…This article proposes a flexible extension of the Fay-Herriot model for making inferences from coarsened, group-level achievement data, for example,…”
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A Methodology for Zumbo's Third Generation DIF Analyses and the Ecology of Item Responding by Zumbo, Bruno D., Liu, Yan, Wu, Amery D., Shear, Benjamin R., Olvera Astivia, Oscar L., Ark, Tavinder K.

“…Methods for detecting differential item functioning (DIF) and item bias are typically used in the process of item analysis when developing new measures;…”
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