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Direct linkvan der Linden, Wim J.; Ariel, Adelaide; Veldkamp, Bernard P. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2006
Test-item writing efforts typically results in item pools with an undesirable correlational structure between the content attributes of the items and their statistical information. If such pools are used in computerized adaptive testing (CAT), the algorithm may be forced to select items with less than optimal information, that violate the content…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Items, Item Banks
Download full textvan der Linden, Wim J.; Reese, Lynda M. – 1997
A model for constrained computerized adaptive testing is proposed in which the information in the test at the ability estimate is maximized subject to a large variety of possible constraints on the contents of the test. At each item-selection step, a full test is first assembled to have maximum information at the current ability estimate fixing…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Simulation
