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The PPRs of 23 of 24 items favoured the CM group.
Thirty-four pet cats were presented with three types of items: favoured food (FF), favoured food with a placebo mini-tablet hidden inside (TFF) and non-favoured food (NFF).
Although in the single diet shown in Figure 3 the items favouring UK and non-UK candidates seem about equally distributed, if a consequence of changing to statistical equating was that the proportion of items favouring non-UK candidates had also changed, then the pass rate of non-UK candidates could increase while the pass rate of UK candidates remained stable.
192 homeopathic practitioners (GPs and health practitioners) at a educational conference were asked to answer a standardized questionnaire covering the topics "formal education and context of work" (9 items), "homeopathic practise and usage (24 items), "utilization of educational media" (9 items) and "favoured attributes for educational media" (11 items).
The questionnaire consists of 53 items covering the topics "homeopathic practise" (24 items), "formal education and context of work" (9 items), "utilization of educational media" (9 items) and "favoured attributes for educational media" (11 items).
Due to the fact that the tentative factors 5 and 6 consist of just 3 or 4 items, we favoured a 4-factor solution, which explains 59.4% of variance (Table 2): The strongest factor with an eigenvalue of 10.4, termed "Positive Life Construction, Contentedness and Well-Being" is made up by 11 items of the former factors 1 and 4, and had an alpha of 0.921.
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).
However, due to a low item number in the tentative subscales 2 5 (with 2 or 3 items each), we favoured the more appropriate 3-factor solution which explains 53.8% of variance (Table 2).
Sometimes bias may cancel out in the test, for example, one item may favour males, another females, and their effects may be nullified [ 28].
This measure (item 5) was favoured by nearly all of the participants in our study (92% "good"), but many of them considered the feasibility as being critical (25% "good").
