Computerized classification test

A computerized classification test (CCT) refers to, as its name would suggest, a test that is administered by computer for the purpose of classifying examinees. The most common CCT is a mastery test where the test classifies examinees as "Pass" or "Fail," but the term also includes tests that classify examinees into more than two categories. While the term may generally be considered to refer to all computer-administered tests for classification, it is usually used to refer to tests that are interactively administered or of variable-length, similar to computerized adaptive testing (CAT).

A CCT requires several components:

1. An item bank calibrated with a psychometric model selected by the test designer

2. A starting point

3. A termination criterion and scoring procedure

4. An item selection algorithm

The termination criterion and scoring procedure are separate in CAT, but the same in CCT. Therefore, there are five components that must be specified to design a CAT.