The Relation between Factor Loadings and Biserial Correlations in Item Analysis
- 1 December 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 27 (4) , 419-424
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289648
Abstract
The first centroid factor loadings obtained from various interitem relations are compared with item discrimination indices commonly used in item analysis. Depending upon what type of matrix is factored, the factor loadings are shown to be related to point biserial and biserial correlations.Keywords
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