CAT Components
There are five technical components in building a CAT (the following is adapted from Weiss & Kingsbury, 1984 ). This list does not include practical issues, such as item pretesting or live field release.
- Calibrated item pool
- Starting point or entry level
- Item selection algorithm
- Scoring procedure
- Termination criterion
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