فحص الأداء التفاضلي لفقرات أداة تقييم الأداء التدريسي تبعا لمتغير الجنس في جامعة اليرموك باستخدام طريقة مانتل-هانزل العامة

الملخص EN

The study aimed at examining differential items functioning in student evaluation of teaching survey at Yarmouk University according to gender from the students' perspective using the mantel-Hansel method.

to achieve the aims of the study, the data was obtained from Yarmouk university.

this data set was collected during the summer semester of the academic year 2015/ 2016.

the total number of the analyzed data was of (7343) questionnaire.

the result of the study showed that one item was flagged as DIF items according to gender, and it was in favor of females students compared to male students , when calculating the size of DIF for the item showed DIF according to gender in the instrument used at Yarmouk university, it was found that there is no effect for the items showing dif.

the results of the study also indicated that removing item with DIF in the instrument adopted at Yarmouk university, according to gender significantly improves goodness of fit indices of the instrument and thus in the preparation of items.

the study recommended the need for universities to pay more attention to assess the quality of instruments with respect to DIF when preparing these instruments.