“…The mechanisms behind CAT that create shorter but more accurate tests, as can be expected, attracted the attention of language testers from the 1980s throughout the 1990s (Chalhoub-Deville, 2001). Accordingly, during the 1990s, a number of studies reported the development of CATs (e.g., Brown & Iwashita, 1996;Young, Shermis, Brutten, & Perkins, 1996). The interest in CAT supposedly peaked around the turn of the century when two widely cited books on CAT Wainer et al, 2000) and their review articles (Fulcher, 2000;Norris, 2001) were published.…”