Test sensitivity in assessing competencies in nursing education

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 18 Global DIF analysis to identify subgroup invariance between specializations for measurement in the third year

	Estimate	Standard error
Geriatric nursing	0.020	0.051
Clinical nursing	− 0.020^a
Chi-square test of parameter equality	0.15
df	1
Sig Level	0.695

^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