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research methods

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item analysis

item analysis Item analysis is the examination of individual questions or statements in a scale to judge how well they perform and which ones should be kept.

Item analysis is the examination of individual questions or statements in a scale to judge how well they perform and which ones should be kept. In test or measure development, it is used before keeping retained items for later analyses such as factor analysis and validation.