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Download full textvan der Linden, Wim J.; Carlson, James E. – 1999
A popular design in large-scale educational assessments is the balanced incomplete block design. The design assumes that the item pool is split into a set of blocks of items that are assigned to assessment booklets. This paper shows how the technique of 0-1 linear programming can be used to calculate a balanced incomplete block design. Several…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Item Banks, Linear Programming, Research Design
