Online music services have tens of millions of tracks. The content itself is broad and covers various musical genres as well as non-musical audio content such as radio plays and podcasts. The sheer scale and diversity of content makes it difficult for a user to find relevant tracks. Relevant recommendations are therefore crucial for a good user experience. Here we present a method to compute tr...

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...

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...