To weight or not to weight? Balancing influence of initial items in adaptive testing

Psychometrika

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 441-450

  Chang, Hua Hua ^a   Ying, Zhiliang ^b  

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

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

Author keywords

A stratified method; Computerized adaptive testing; Fisher information; Item selection algorithm; MLE

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949106531     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-007-9047-7     Document Type: Article

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