Package: ata
Title: Automated Test Assembly
Version: 1.1.1
Date: 2020-11-06
Authors@R: c(
    person(given = "Gulsah",
           family = "Gurkan",
           role = c("aut"),
           email = "gurkangulsah@gmail.com"),
    person(given = "Michael",
               family = "Chajewski",
               role = c("aut","cre"),
               email = "mchajewski@hotmail.com"),
    person(given = "Sam",
               family = "Buttrey",
               role = c("cph"),
               email = "buttrey@nps.edu"))
Author: Gulsah Gurkan [aut], Michael Chajewski [aut, cre], Sam Buttrey
        [cph]
Maintainer: Michael Chajewski <mchajewski@hotmail.com>
Description: Provides a collection of psychometric methods to process
        item metadata and use target assessment and measurement
        blueprint constraints to assemble a test form. Currently two
        automatic test assembly (ata) approaches are enabled. For
        example, the weighted (positive) deviations method, wdm(),
        proposed by Swanson and Stocking (1993)
        <doi:10.1177/014662169301700205> was implemented in its full
        specification allowing for both item selection as well as test
        form refinement. The linear constraint programming approach,
        atalp(), uses the linear equation solver by Berkelaar et. al
        (2014) <http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/> to enable a
        variety of approaches to select items.
Depends: R (>= 3.0.0), lpSolve
Imports: stats
License: LGPL-2
Copyright: file COPYRIGHTS
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-08 09:52:30 UTC; root
Repository: https://chajewski.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2020-11-10 14:20:08 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/ata
RemoteRef: HEAD
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