This article provides a review of the approach that James used when conducting item analyses on his conditional reasoning test items. That approach was anchored in classical test theory. Our article extends this work in two important ways. First, we offer a set of test development protocols that are tailored to the unique nature of conditional reasoning tests. Second, we further extend James’s approach by integrating his early test validation protocols (based on classical test theory) with more recent protocols (based on item response theory). We then apply our integrated item analytic framework to data collected on James’s first test, the conditional reasoning test for relative motive strength. We illustrate how this integrated approach furnishes additional diagnostic information that may allow researchers to make more informed and targeted revisions to an initial set of items.

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条件推理：项目分析的综合方法

本文提供了James在对其条件推理测试项目进行项目分析时使用的方法的回顾。该方法基于经典测试理论。我们的文章以两种重要方式扩展了这项工作。首先，我们提供了一组针对条件推理测试的独特性质而量身定制的测试开发协议。其次，我们通过将James的早期测试验证协议（基于经典测试理论）与最新协议（基于项目响应理论）相集成，进一步扩展了James的方法。然后，我们将集成的项目分析框架应用于在James的第一个测试（相对动机强度的条件推理测试）中收集的数据。