Objective The growing popularity of Automatic Item Generation (AIG) can be attributed to the increasing demand for the production of large pools of operational test items. AIG is an algorithmic way of generating assessment tasks which combines cognitive theories, psychometric practices and computer technologies. The outcome of this algorithmic transcriptions of assessment task is 1986). The ite...

Schema analysis is the process of determining and capturing how individual schema items in diverse databases are related to each other. During this process different types of semantic relationships between schema items in different databases are identified and meaningful cross-links are established. The work presented in this paper concentrates on the issue of determining several types of inter...

Prior research has yielded mixed results regarding what contributes to psychometrically sound multiple-choice (MC) items. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, twofold: (a) to compare 3-, 4-, and 5-option multiple-choice (MC) tests in terms of psychometric characteristics, and (b) to investigate the relationships between three MC tests and five personality traits. To that end, 150 st...

Although it is generally accepted that the medial temporal lobe (MTL) is critical for episodic memory, the contributions of cortical regions in the MTL, such as the perirhinal (PRc) and parahippocampal (PHc) cortices, remain unresolved. Recent studies have asserted that the PRc supports the processing of object and face information, whereas the PHc supports the processing of scene information. ...