Exploratory factor analysis: Its role in item analysis
Exploratory factor analysis: Its role in item analysis
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DOI：
10.1207/s15327752jpa6803_5
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发表时间：
1997-06-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Gorsuch, RL
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The special characteristics of items-low reliability, confounds by minor, unwanted covariance, and the likelihood of a general factor-and better understanding of factor analysis means that the default procedure of many statistical packages (''Little Jiffy'') is no longer adequate for exploratory item factor analysis. It produces too many factors and precludes a general factor even when that means the factors extracted are nonreplicable. More appropriate procedures that reduce these problems are presented, along with how to select the sample, sample size required, and how to select items for scales. Proposed scales can be evaluated by their correlations with the factors, a new procedure for doing so eliminates the biased values produced by correlating them with either total or factor scores. The role of exploratory factor analysis relative to cluster analysis and confirmatory factor analysis is noted.