Issues in the development of an item bank.
The pain behavior item bank demonstrated good fit to a unidimensional model (Comparative Fit Index = 0.94).
Besides the large item bank, item exposure mechanism is also essential to a testing system.
A working item bank is essential for development of a CAT platform.
Furthermore, a large item bank is indispensable to a test, but when a CAT system has a large item bank, the test item selection of IRT becomes more tedious.
The objective of this study was to develop and calibrate an item bank [anxiety item bank for cardiovascular patients (AIB-cardio)] as a prerequisite for an anxiety-CAT in CVD patients.
The item bank will be within the conceptual framework of the widely used EORTC Quality of Life questionnaire (QLQ-C30).
We have this item bank as well.
Following the analysis, 79 items remained in the item bank.
We added the former group to the item bank.
Hence, 79 psychometrically sound items remained in the item bank.
