Improving Personality Facet Scores With Multidimensional Computer Adaptive Testing: An Illustration With the Neo Pi-R

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Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-13

  Makransky, Guido ^a,c   Mortensen, Erik Lykke ^b   Glas, Cees A W ^c  

^a Master International A/S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

multidimensional computer adaptive testing (MCAT); multidimensional item response theory (MIRT); NEO PI R; personality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872708830     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191112437756     Document Type: Article

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