The MSATB
dataset consists of the responses of 1,407 subjects
(484 males, 923 females) to admission test to medical school in the Czech republic.
It contains 20 selected items from original test while first item was previously detected
as differently functioning (Vlckova, 2014). A correct answer is coded as 1 and incorrect
answer as 0. The column gender
represents gender of students, where 0 indicates
males (reference group) and 1 indicates females (focal group).
data(MSATB)
A MSATB
data frame consists of 1,407 observations on the following 21 variables:
dichotomously scored items of the test
gender of respondents, "0"
males, "1"
females
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 Test and Item Fairness (Unpublished master's thesis).