01062nas a2200109   4500008004100000245010200041210006900143260009700212520051300309100001800822856011200840       2009                        eng d00aThe MEDPRO project: An SBIR project for a comprehensive IRT and CAT software system: CAT software0 aMEDPRO project An SBIR project for a comprehensive IRT and CAT s  aD. J. Weiss (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2009 GMAC Conference on Computerized Adaptive Testing.3 aDevelopment of computerized adaptive tests (CAT) requires a number of appropriate software tools.  This paper describes the development of two new CAT software programs.  CATSIM has been designed specifically to conduct several different kinds of simulation studies, which are necessary for planning purposes as well as properly designing live CATs.  FastCAT is a software system for banking items and publishing CAT tests as standalone files, to be administered anywhere.  Both are available for public use.1 aThompson, N A  uhttp://iacat.org/content/medpro-project-sbir-project-comprehensive-irt-and-cat-software-system-cat-software