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Direct linkHuitzing, Hiddo A.; Veldkamp, Bernard P.; Verschoor, Angela J. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2005
Several techniques exist to automatically put together a test meeting a number of specifications. In an item bank, the items are stored with their characteristics. A test is constructed by selecting a set of items that fulfills the specifications set by the test assembler. Test assembly problems are often formulated in terms of a model consisting…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Programming, Mathematics, Item Sampling
van der Linden, Wim J.; Ariel, Adelaide; Veldkamp, Bernard P. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2006
Test-item writing efforts typically results in item pools with an undesirable correlational structure between the content attributes of the items and their statistical information. If such pools are used in computerized adaptive testing (CAT), the algorithm may be forced to select items with less than optimal information, that violate the content…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Items, Item Banks
