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Comment on Three-Element Item Selection Procedures for Multiple Forms Assembly: An Item Matching Approach

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Applied Psychological Measurement

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Abstract

A recent article in this journal addressed the choice between specialized heuristics and mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers for automated test assembly. This reaction is to comment on the mischaracterization of the general nature of MIP solvers in this article, highlight the quite inefficient modeling of the test-assembly problems used in its empirical examples, and counter these examples by presenting the MIP solutions for a set of 35 real-world multiple-form assembly problems.