lsasim (version 2.1.4)

booklet_design: Assignment of item blocks to test booklets

Description

block_design creates a data frame that identifies which items corresponds to which booklets.

Usage

booklet_design(item_block_assignment, book_design = NULL)

Arguments

item_block_assignment

a matrix that identifies which items correspond to which block.

book_design

a matrix of indicators to assign blocks to booklets.

Details

If using booklet_design in tandem with block_design, item_block_assignment is the the first element of the returned list of block_design.

The columns of item_block_assignment represent each block while the rows represent the number of items in each block. Becuase the number of items per block can vary, the number of rows represents the block with the most items. The contets of item_block_assignment is the actual item numbers. The remainer of shorter blocks are filled with zeros.

The columns of book_design represent each book while the rows represent each block.

The default book_design assigns two blocks to every booklet in a spiral design. The number of default booklets is equal to the number of blocks and must be >= 3. If ncol(item_block_assignment) < 3, book_design must be specified.

Examples

i_blk_mat <- matrix(seq(1:40), ncol = 5) 
blk_book <- matrix(c(1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
                     0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0), 
                     ncol = 5, byrow = TRUE)
booklet_design(item_block_assignment = i_blk_mat, book_design = blk_book)
booklet_design(item_block_assignment = i_blk_mat)