Multidimensional adaptive testing with constraints on test content

Psychometrika

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 575-588

  Veldkamp, Bernard P ^a   Van Der Linden, Wim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mathematical programming; Multidimensional adaptive testing; Multidimensional item response theory; Posterior expected Kullback Leibler information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037002143     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02295132     Document Type: Article

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