IMPROVED ADAPTIVE TESTING MODEL BASED ON ITEM RESPONSE THEORY (IRT) MODELING

Adel A. Alhajji (Brunei), Md. Mahmud Hassan (Brunei), Nor Jaidi Tuah (Brunei) and Khalil Abdullah (Kuwait)

Received March 12, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: item response theory (IRT), logistic model (PL).