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MSATBtest: Dataset of School Admission Test in Biology.

Description

The MSATBtest dataset consists of the responses of 1,407 subjects (484 males, 923 females) to multiple-choice admission test to medical school in the Czech republic. It contains 20 selected items from original test while first item was previously detected detected as differently functioning (Vlckova, 2014). Possible answers were A, B, C, and D, while any combination of these can be correct. The column gender represents gender of students, where 0 indicates males (reference group) and 1 indicates females (focal group).

Usage

data(MSATBtest)

Arguments

Format

A MSATBtest data frame consists of 1,407 observations on the following 21 variables:

Item

nominal items of the test

gender

gender of respondents, "0" males, "1" females

References

Drabinova, A. & Martinkova, P. (2017). Detection of differential item functioning with nonlinear regression: A non-IRT approach accounting for guessing. Journal of Educational Measurement, 54(4), 498--517, 10.1111/jedm.12158.

Vlckova, K. (2014). Test and Item Fairness (Unpublished master's thesis).

See Also

MSATB, MSATBkey