เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Multidimensional Item Response Theory	Factor Analysis
สาขาวิชา	Education	สถิติการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Latent structure	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2009	1931
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Mark Reckase; foundations in factor analysis of items (Bock, McDonald)	Louis Leon Thurstone
ประเภท	Item response model with multiple latent ability dimensions	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Reckase, M. D. (2009). Multidimensional Item Response Theory. Springer.	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple Factor Analysis. University of Chicago Press.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	MIRT, Multidimensional IRT, Compensatory MIRT, Bifactor IRT	EFA, CFA, latent variable modeling
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3
สรุป	Multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) generalizes IRT to tests that measure more than one latent ability at once. Instead of a single ability θ, each examinee is characterized by a vector of abilities, and each item by a vector of discriminations indicating how strongly it taps each dimension. MIRT unites the logic of item response theory with the structure of factor analysis, letting analysts model, for example, that a word-problem item draws on both reading and mathematics. Synthesized in Reckase's authoritative treatment, it underlies the analysis of complex, multi-skill assessments.	Factor analysis is a statistical technique for identifying latent (unobserved) dimensions underlying observed variables, developed by Louis Leon Thurstone in the 1930s and formalized by Jöreskog (1969). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) discovers unknown factor structure from data; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tests hypothesized relationships between observed and latent variables. Essential in psychometrics (test development), organizational research (measuring constructs like leadership style), and biomedicine (identifying disease subtypes), factor analysis reduces dimensionality while revealing conceptual organization in multivariate data.