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The authors are indebted to the editor, associate editor and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions and comments on the earlier manuscript. They particularly thank Carolyn Anderson for her suggestions which led to numerous improvements.
This research was partially supported by Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 31100759, 30860084, and 31160203, by the project of Student Academic Quality Evaluation under the National Centre of Curriculum and Textbook Development for Basic Education (NCCT), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. Part of the paper was originally presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Denver Co.
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Liu, HY., You, XF., Wang, WY. et al. The Development of Computerized Adaptive Testing with Cognitive Diagnosis for an English Achievement Test in China. J Classif 30, 152–172 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00357-013-9128-5
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