A method for analyzing the relative difficulty of individual items for different racial or ethnic groups is __________.
A)Differential Item Functioning
B)Intercept Bias
C)Internal Structure Analysis
D)Item Discrimination Index

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Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is used to analyze if individuals from different groups (e.g., racial or ethnic groups) have different probabilities of answering an item correctly, even when they have the same underlying ability level.

A Method for Analyzing the Relative Difficulty of Individual Items