Elements of Adaptive Testing: Theory and Practice

Item selection and ability estimation in adaptive testing (Wim J. van der Linden and Peter J. PashIey).- Constrained adaptive testing with shadow tests (Wim J. van der Linden).- Principles of multidimensional adaptive testing (Daniel O. Segall).- Multidimensional adaptive testing with Kullback-Liebler information item selection (Wim J. van der Linden and Joris Mulder).- Sequencing an adaptive test battery (Wim J. van der Linden).- Adaptive tests for measuring anxiety and depression (Otto B. Walter).- MATHCAT: A flexible testing system in mathematics education for adults (Alfred J. Verschoor and Gerard J. J. M. Straetmans).- Implementing the Graduate Management admission test computerized adaptive test (Lawrence M. Rudner).- Designing and implementing a multistage adaptive test: The uniform CPA exam (Gerald J. Melican, Krista Breithaupt, and Yanwei Zhang).- A Japanese adaptive test of English as a foreign language: Developmental and operational aspects (Yasuko Nogami and Norio Hayashi).- Innovative items for computerized testing (Cynthia G. Parshall, J. Christine Harmes, Tim Davey, and Peter J. Pashley).- Designing item pools for adaptive testing (Bernard P. Veldkamp and Wim J. van der Linden).- Assembling an inventory of multistage adaptive testing systems (Krista Breithaupt, Adelaide A. Ariel, and Donovan R. Hare).- Item parameter estimation and item fit analysis (Cees A.W. GIas).- Estimation of the parameters in an item-cloning model for adaptive testing (Cees A. W. GIas, Wim J. van der Linden, and Hanneke Geerlings).- Detecting person misfit in adaptive testing using statistical process control techniques (Edith M. L. A. van Krimpen-Stoop and Rob R. Meijer).- The assessment of differential item functioning in computer adaptive tests (Rebecca Zawick).- Multi-stage testing: Issues, designs, and research (April Zenisky, Ronald K.Hambleton, and Richard M. Luecht).- Three-category adaptive classification testing (Theo J.H.M. Eggen).- Testlet-based adaptive mastery testing (Hans J. Vos and Cees A. W. Glas).- Adaptive mastering testing using a multidimensional IRT model (Cees A. W. Glas and Hans J. Vos).