Table 1.

Constraints and Weights for Between-Item and Within-Item Multidimensional Pools.

	Between-item pool			Within-item pool
Constraints	Weight	Lower bound	Upper bound	Weight	Lower bound	Upper bound
Dimension 1—Content 1	1	3	5	1	5	9
Dimension 1—Content 2	1	5	7	1	7	13
Dimension 1—Content 3	1	4	6	1	6	11
Dimension 2—Content 1	1	5	8	1	6	14
Dimension 2—Content 2	1	6	9	1	7	16
Answer Key-A	1	5	10	1	5	10
Answer Key-B	1	5	10	1	5	10
Answer Key-C	1	5	10	1	5	10
Answer Key-D	1	5	10	1	5	10
Item exposure control	1		0.2	1		0.2
Fisher information	1			1

Note. The Fisher information constraint refers to the determinant of the Fisher information matrix.