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Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Plake, Barbara S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
Even when the scoring of an examination is based on item response theory (IRT), standard-setting methods seldom use this information directly when determining the minimum passing score (MPS) for an examination from an Angoff-based standard-setting study. Often, when IRT scoring is used, the MPS value for a test is converted to an IRT-based theta…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Scoring, Cutting Scores, Item Response Theory