Generating adaptive and non-adaptive test interfaces for multidimensional item response theory applications

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 71, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chalmers, R Philip ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CAT; GUI; MIRT; Multidimensional CAT; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979766168     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v071.i05     Document Type: Article

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