Consequences of test anxiety on adaptive versus fixed item testing

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 157-163

  Ortner, Tuulia M ^a   Caspers, Juliane ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive testing; CAT; Fairness; Matrices; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959815348     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000062     Document Type: Article

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