Bayesian item selection in constrained adaptive testing using shadow tests

Psicologica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-169

  Veldkamp, Bernard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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