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drift
drift In psychological and educational assessment, drift usually means item parameter drift: a change over time in an anchor item’s measurement properties, especially its difficulty and sometimes its discrimination.
In psychological and educational assessment, drift usually means item parameter drift: a change over time in an anchor item’s measurement properties, especially its difficulty and sometimes its discrimination. This weakens the assumption that the item works the same way across test forms or administrations and can bias score linking and interpretation.