Generation of IRT Response Patterns under Computerized Adaptive Testing

Provides routines for the generation of response patterns under unidimensional dichotomous and polytomous computerized adaptive testing (CAT) framework. It holds many standard functions to estimate ability, select the first item(s) to administer and optimally select the next item, as well as several stopping rules. Options to control for item exposure and content balancing are also available (Magis and Barrada (2017) ).


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install.packages("catR")

3.17 by Cheng Hua, 4 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/catR


Authors: David Magis (U Liege , Belgium) , Gilles Raiche (UQAM , Canada) , Juan Ramon Barrada (U Zaragoza , Spain)


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 3) license



Imported by RSP.

Suggested by catIrt, catSurv, eyeprocess, scaleAlign.


See at CRAN