Publisher Summary This chapter presents a study for the comparison of item response
theory-based adaptive mastery testing (AMT) and a sequential mastery testing procedure.
Monte Carlo simulation was used to delineate circumstances in which one of the mastery
testing procedures might have an advantage over the other. The method used to compare
the two variable-length mastery testing procedures, which were AMT and sequential
probability ratio test (SPRT), to one another, as well as to a conventional testing procedure …