Elements of Adaptive Testing

• ITEM SELECTION AND ABILITY ESTIMATION.- Item Selection and Ability Estimation in Adaptive Testing.- Constrained Adaptive Testing with Shadow Tests.- Principles of Multidimensional Adaptive Testing.- Multidimensional Adaptive Testing with Kullback#x2013;Leibler Information Item Selection.- Sequencing an Adaptive Test Battery.- APPLICATIONS IN LARGE-SCALE TESTING PROGRAMS.- Adaptive Tests for Measuring Anxiety and Depression.- MATHCAT: A Flexible Testing System in Mathematics Education for Adults.- Implementing the Graduate Management Admission Test Computerized Adaptive Test.- Designing and Implementing a Multistage Adaptive Test: The Uniform CPA Exam.- A Japanese Adaptive Test of English as a Foreign Language: Developmental and Operational Aspects.- ITEM POOL DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE.- Innovative Items for Computerized Testing.- Designing Item Pools for Adaptive Testing.- Assembling an Inventory of Multistage Adaptive Testing Systems.- ITEM CALIBRATION AND MODEL FIT.- Item Parameter Estimation and Item Fit Analysis.- Estimation of the Parameters in an Item-Cloning Model for Adaptive Testing.- Detecting Person Misfit in Adaptive Testing.- The Investigation of Differential Item Functioning in Adaptive Tests.- MULTISTAGE AND MASTERY TESTING.- Multistage Testing: Issues, Designs, and Research.- Three-Category Adaptive Classification Testing.- Testlet-Based Adaptive Mastery Testing.- Adaptive Mastery Testing Using a Multidimensional IRT Model.

From the reviews: "Elements of Adaptive Testing is an excellent book on the current state-of-the-art in CAT ... . a highly advanced text, which makes the book most suitable for researchers in the field of adaptive testing. ... Elements of Adaptive Testing covers key features of adaptive testing and addresses many complex design and analysis issues involved, thereby making a crucial read for researchers in any field of CAT." (Usama S. Ali and Peter W. van Rijn, Psychometrika, Vol. 78, 2013)