Does adaptive testing violate local independence?

Psychometrika

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-156

  Mislevy, Robert J ^b   Chang, Hua Hua ^a  

^a The National Board of Medical Examiners   (Canada)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive testing; Conditional independence; Item response theory (irt); Local independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034345727     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294370     Document Type: Article

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