Sentence examples for biased items from inspiring English sources

The research assessed the clarity and ease of use of the research instruments and any sensitive, biased items were identified and modified.

One of the approaches to DIF detection is the traditional, exploratory approach which is conducted in two steps: statistical identification of items that favour particular groups followed by a substantive review of potentially biased items to locate the sources of DIF (Gierl, 2005).

Confirmatory factor analysis for ordered-categorical measures (CFA-OCM) uncovered two biased items.

Further, when Filipinos were compared to Hawaiians, there were five significantly biased items.

Therefore, it is not recommended that any of the biased items be removed, or even reworded.

This supports the stated hypothesis that biased items would exist for Filipinos when compared to Caucasian and Japanese groups.

Based on findings from Gajewski et al. [ 20], the subject experts tend to overestimate the relevancy of items, resulting in highly biased item-to-domain correlations.

However, even though the influence of bias items is well known and described, authors tend to forget that biased trials included in systematic reviews will cause meta-analyses to be biased.

We scored 31/175 risk of bias items as "high," with attrition as the most frequent bias.

In particular, the percentages across all included studies for high, low and unclear risk of bias items were 34.1, 54.8 and 11.1 %, respectively (Table 2).

The scale was composed of 20 items related to information reporting (items 1 to 9), external validity (items 10 and 11), internal validity (items 12 to 15), and selection bias (items 16 to 20).