Elements of Adaptive Testing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: van der Linden, Wim J. (Editor), Glas, Cees A.W (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Assessment.; Psychometrics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

The arrival of the computer in educational and psychological testing has led to the current popularity of adaptive testing---a testing format in which the computer uses statistical information about the test items to automatically adapt their selection to a real-time update of the test taker’s abili...