ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of some popular solutions to the automated assembly of test forms and item pools for computerized administration. It describes some key features of the most popular methods and discusses unsolved issues in operationalizing automated assembly and to propose future directions for research and development of automated assembly systems. Automated test assembly is the use of information processing available via computer programming solutions to select test questions or tasks from an eligible item bank onto many test forms. The completed test forms may be presented either on paper or via computerized delivery and the test taker experience can be adaptive or fixed in terms of their interaction with the assembled test content. The chapter shows how subdividing the item pool using optimization resulted in exactly comparable results for unique forms when forms were later assembled using these separate sub pools and a discrete optimization assembly solution for computer-adaptive multistage tests (MSTs).
