Test sensitivity in assessing competencies in nursing education

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 12 Global DIF analysis to identify subgroup invariance between years of nursing education for measurement in the second year

	Estimate	Standard error
2nd year of nursing education	− 0.044	0.054
3rd year of nursing education	0.044^a
Chi-square test of parameter equality	0.67
df	1
Sig Level	0.413

^aThe item parameters were fixed to zero as part of the item analysis. One parameter is fixed by ConQuest by default for model identification purposes