Krahasoni metodat

	Analiza Faktoriale Eksploratore Politomike	Teoria e Përgjigjes së Pjesëve (IRT)
Fusha	Psikometri	Psikometri
Familja	Latent structure	Latent structure
Viti i origjinës	1978	1952–1968
Krijuesi	Bengt Muthén	Frederic M. Lord (and Allan Birnbaum for the 2PL/3PL models)
Lloji	Latent variable / dimension reduction	Probabilistic measurement model
Burimi themelues	Flora, D. B., & Curran, P. J. (2004). An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data. Psychological Methods, 9(4), 466–491.	Lord, F. M. & Novick, M. R. (1968). Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores. Addison-Wesley.
Emërtime të tjera	EFA for ordered-categorical data, polychoric EFA, ordinal exploratory factor analysis, polytomous factor analysis	IRT, latent trait theory, item characteristic curve theory, modern test theory
Të lidhura	4	5
Përmbledhja	Polytomous exploratory factor analysis extends standard EFA to ordered categorical (Likert-type) response data by replacing the Pearson correlation matrix with a polychoric correlation matrix. It recovers the latent continuous variable that each polytomous item is assumed to reflect, yielding more accurate factor loadings and better-defined factor structures than treating ordinal scores as if they were continuous.	Item response theory models the probability that a respondent answers an item correctly (or endorses it) as a function of the respondent's latent trait level and the item's own statistical properties — difficulty, discrimination, and guessing. Unlike classical test theory, IRT places persons and items on the same scale, yielding measurement that is sample-independent for items and test-independent for persons.