Comparar métodos

	Diferencial de Itens Politômicos (DIF Politômico)	Teste de Invariância de Medida
Área	Psicometria	Psicometria
Família	Latent structure	Latent structure
Ano de origem	1990s–2000s	2000
Autor original	Bruno D. Zumbo and colleagues (ordinal logistic regression framework); Robert D. Ankenmann, Hariharan Swaminathan and others (IRT-based extensions)	Vandenberg & Lance
Tipo	Measurement fairness / item bias detection	Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis procedure
Fonte seminal	Zumbo, B. D. (1999). A handbook on the theory and methods of differential item functioning (DIF): Logistic regression modeling as a unitary framework for binary and Likert-type (ordinal) item scores. Directorate of Human Resources Research and Evaluation, Department of National Defense.	Vandenberg, R. J., & Lance, C. E. (2000). A review and synthesis of the measurement invariance literature. Organizational Research Methods, 3(1), 4–70.
Outros nomes	Polytomous DIF, DIF for polytomous items, ordinal DIF analysis, graded-response DIF	Factorial Invariance, Measurement Equivalence, Configural-Metric-Scalar Testing, Ölçüm Değişmezliği
Relacionados	4	3
Resumo	Polytomous differential item functioning detects whether a test or survey item with more than two ordered response categories (e.g., Likert-type scales, partial-credit items) functions differently across groups such as gender, ethnicity, or language background, after controlling for the latent trait being measured. It extends classical binary DIF methods to ordinal response formats.	Measurement invariance testing is a sequence of nested confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models that examines whether a psychological scale measures the same latent construct in the same way across distinct groups or time points. Systematized and popularized by Vandenberg and Lance (2000), the procedure tests a hierarchy of constraints — from identical factor patterns to identical item intercepts — so that researchers can justify meaningful group comparisons on latent means.