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Test and Item Analysis via Shiny

Welcome to SIA!

SIA offers an interactive psychometric analysis of educational tests, psychological and health-related assessments, and other types of multi-item/multi-rater measurements.

Wide range of methods

  • Latent trait estimation
  • Reliability and measurement error analysis
  • Validity and correlation structure
  • Complex analysis of item functioning
  • ... and more via add-on modules

User friendly

SIA provides model equations, parameter estimates and their interpretation.

Data

Several toy data sets are ready to use. You can also upload and analyze your own data.

Selected R code

All methods include sample R code which is ready to copy and paste into R and run locally.

Report generation

SIA offers automatic generation of HTML and PDF reports.




News

January 16, 2026

A workshop on Computational Aspects of Psychometric Methods with ShinyItemAnalysis will be held on NCME 2026 conference, Los Angeles, California, USA on April 8.

July 22, 2025

We presented a workshop on Modelling Responses in Multi-Item Measurement with R and ShinyItemAnalysis at EAM 2025 conference, University of La Laguna in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

July 14, 2025

Workshop on SIA modules was held at the IMPS 2025 conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

July 10, 2025

{ShinyItemAnalysis} was updated to 1.5.5!
SIA Modules are now available for installation directly from the app's GUI (Modules tab), see our manuscript.
New estimation methods are implemented based on our recent paper.
See the changelog for the full list of changes and bugfixes.

Find more about SIA's news and updates.



Licence and citation

{ShinyItemAnalysis} is a free software and you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPL 3. When using the {ShinyItemAnalysis} software, we appreciate if you include a reference in your publications. To cite the software, please, use:

Martinková, P., & Hladká, A. (2023). Computational Aspects of Psychometric Methods: With R (1st ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003054313

or

Martinková, P., & Drabinová, A. (2018). ShinyItemAnalysis for teaching psychometrics and to enforce routine analysis of educational tests. The R Journal, 10(2), 503-515. https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-074

In Czech written papers you can also use

Martinková, P., Drabinová, A., & Houdek, J. (2017). ShinyItemAnalysis: Analýza přijímacích a jiných znalostních či psychologických testů. TESTFÓRUM, 6(9), 16-35. https://doi.org/10.5817/TF2017-9-129