Direct and inverse problems of item pool design for computerized adaptive testing

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 533-547

  Belov, Dmitry I ^a   Armstrong, Ronald D ^b  

^a Law School Admission Council   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated test assembly; Combinatorial optimization; Computerized adaptive testing; Item pool design; Item response theory; Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949146794     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164409332224     Document Type: Article

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