On the Automatic Generation of Test Items: Some Whens, Whys, and Hows

Item Generation for Test Development

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 287-305

  Wainer, Howard ^a,b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b American Board of Urology   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410602145-22     Document Type: Chapter

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