Two-phase item selection procedure for flexible content balancing in CAT

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 467-482

  Cheng, Ying ^a,c   Chang, Hua Hua ^a   Yi, Qing ^b  

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

^b Harcourt Assessment Inc   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

A stratification methods; Exposure control; Fixed content balancing; Flexible content balancing; Item selection; Two phase content balancing

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348861292     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621606292933     Document Type: Article

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