The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test is now administered by computer, allowing adaptive testing. What is adaptive testing?
a. Adaptive testing includes only those items related to the recruit's areas of interest.
b. Adaptive testing involves presenting a question of known difficulty and then presenting more or less difficult items depending on whether the item was correctly answered.
c. Adaptive testing eliminates sources of bias by generating large numbers of items.
d. Adaptive testing reduces the risk of cheating by randomly sampling from a large test bank.
b
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