השוואת שיטות

	ניתוח פריטים רב-קבוצתי	ניתוח גורמים מאשר (CFA)
תחום	פסיכומטריה	פסיכומטריה
משפחה	Latent structure	Latent structure
שנת המקור	1986	1969
הוגה השיטה	Classical test theory tradition; systematised by Crocker & Algina (1986)	Karl Gustav Jöreskog
סוג	Comparative item-level analysis	Hypothesis-testing latent variable model
מקור מכונן	Crocker, L. & Algina, J. (1986). Introduction to Classical and Modern Test Theory. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN: 978-0030616341	Jöreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34(2), 183–202.
כינויים	MGIA, group-comparative item analysis, subgroup item analysis, cross-group item analysis	CFA, confirmatory FA, measurement model, restricted factor analysis
קשורות	6	4
תקציר	Multi-group item analysis computes classical item statistics — difficulty, discrimination, and corrected item-total correlations — separately for each subgroup in a sample and then compares those statistics across groups. It is a standard diagnostic step in scale development and test fairness evaluation, revealing items that behave differently for men versus women, across age cohorts, or across cultural groups before more formal DIF testing.	Confirmatory factor analysis tests a researcher-specified factor structure against observed data. Unlike exploratory approaches, the researcher decides in advance which indicators load on which latent factor, and the model is evaluated by how closely the implied covariance matrix reproduces the sample covariance matrix. CFA is central to scale validation, construct validity assessment, and measurement invariance testing.