Autor según el artículo: Ferrando, Pere J; Morales-Vives, Fabia
Departamento: Psicologia
Autor/es de la URV: Ferrando Piera, Pere Joan / Morales Vives, Fàbia
Palabras clave: Item response theory Item redundancy Item discrimination Item analysis Factor analysis Clinical measurement item response theory item redundancy item analysis inventory factor analysis clinical measurement
Resumen: When developing new questionnaires, it is traditionally assumed that the items should be as discriminative as possible, as if this was always indicative of their quality. However, in some cases these high discriminations may be masking some problems such as redundancies, shared residuals, biased distributions, or model limitations which may contribute to inflate the discrimination estimates. Therefore, the inspection of these indices may lead to erroneous decisions about which items to keep or eliminate. To illustrate this problem, two different scenarios with real data are described. The first focuses on a questionnaire that contains an item apparently highly discriminant, but redundant. The second focuses on a clinical questionnaire administered to a community sample, which gives place to highly right-skewed item response distributions and inflated discriminant indices, despite the items do not discriminate well among the majority of participants. We propose some strategies and checks to identify these situations, so that the items that are inappropriate may be identified and removed. Therefore, this article seeks to promote a critical attitude, which may involve going against routine stablished principles when they are not appropriate.
Áreas temáticas: Saúde coletiva Revistas ciencias del comportamiento Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Medicina i General psychology Educação Ciencias sociales
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: perejoan.ferrando@urv.cat fabia.morales@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3133-5466 0000-0002-2095-0244
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-10-12
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/535781
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Anales De Psicologia. 39 (3): 517-527
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Ferrando, Pere J; Morales-Vives, Fabia (2023). Is it quality, is it redundancy, or is model inadequacy? Some strategies for judging the appropriateness of high-discrimination items. Anales De Psicologia, 39(3), 517-527. DOI: 10.6018/analesps.535781
DOI del artículo: 10.6018/analesps.535781
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2023
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications