A valuable resource for any testing agency is its item pool. This paper considers the problem of assembling the maximum number of nonoverlapping linear test forms from an item pool. The forms are assembled by solving a sequence of integer programming problems. If specified conditions are satisfied, the procedure assures the assembly of the maximum number of linear forms supported by the pool. I...

Automated text-based personality assessment (ATBPA) methods can analyze large amounts of text data and identify nuanced linguistic cues. However, current approaches lack the interpretability, explainability, validity offered by standard questionnaire instruments. To address these weaknesses, we propose an approach that combines questionnaire-based to assessment. Our Statement-to-Item Matching P...

Aesthetic chills are transient emotional responses to music or other experiences of beauty. Item 188 of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) asks respondents if they have experienced these chills, and in American samples it is one of the best definers of Openness to Experience, one of the five basic personality factors. As part of the NEO-PI-R, the item has been translated into over...

T are a vast number of self-report personality measures available. Generally speaking, these measures are based on the assumption that “... individuals are characterized by stable, distinctive, and highly meaningful patterns of variability in their actions, thoughts, and feelings across different types of situations. These if ... then ... situation-behavior relationships provide a kind of ‘beha...