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Ordinal Item Analysis

Ordinal item analysis evaluates each individual item in a rating-scale or Likert-type instrument using descriptive and correlational statistics suited to ordered categorical response formats. It guides item selection and refinement by flagging items with problematic difficulty, poor discrimination, or low corrected item-total correlations before reliability and validity studies proceed.

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Ordinal Item Analysis
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / psychometrics
  • Nunnally, J. C. & Bernstein, I. H. (1994). Psychometric Theory (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. · ISBN 978-0070474659
  • Drasgow, F., Levine, M. V., Tsien, S., Williams, B. & Mead, A. D. (1995). Fitting polytomous item response theory models to multiple-choice tests. Applied Psychological Measurement, 19(2), 143–165. · DOI 10.1177/014662169501900203
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Taxonomic bucketDifferential Item Functioningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketItem Response Theorymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketOrdinal Cronbach's Alphamachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketOrdinal EFAmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketOrdinal Reliability Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketScale developmentmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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