Computerized adaptive testing under nonparametric IRT models

Psychometrika

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-137

  Xu, Xueli ^a,c   Douglas, Jeff ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MS 02 T ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Item response theory; Kullback Leibler information; Nonparametric item response models; Shannon entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744977680     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-003-1154-5     Document Type: Article

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