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Table 3 Descriptive results for the two scales General Fear of Failure and Discriminating School Climate before and after item selection

From: Practical significance of item misfit and its manifestations in constructs assessed in large-scale studies

 

General fear of failure

Discriminating school climate

Before item selection (5 items)

After item selection (3 items)

Δ

Before item selection (10 items)

After item selection (3 items)

Δ

θ mean

0.01

0.02

− 0.01

0.33

− 0.07

0.40***

θ sd

1.24

0.99

0.25***

1.17

1.07

0.10***

correlation of gender and WLE (SE)

− 0.19 (0.03)

− 0.21 (0.03)

0.02

− 0.06 (0.04)

− 0.04 (0.03)

− 0.02

θ mean (female)

0.22

0.24

− 0.02

0.10

− 0.03

0.07***

θ sd (female)

1.11

0.99

0.12

1.13

1.03

0.10

θ mean (male)

− 0.19

− 0.19

0.00

− 0.03

− 0.11

0.08**

θ sd (male)

1.08

0.95

0.13

1.21

1.11

0.10

  1. A t-test was used to calculate significant differences between the means, an F-test of equality of variances was used for significant differences between the variances, and a Fishers' Z-transformation of the correlation coefficients was used for differences between the correlations.
  2. θ = latent trait based on WLE estimation
  3. **p < . 05
  4. ***p < .01