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van der Linden, W.J., Pashley, P.J. (2000). Item Selection and Ability Estimation in Adaptive Testing. In: van der Linden, W.J., Glas, G.A. (eds) Computerized Adaptive Testing: Theory and Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47531-6_1
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