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Peer reviewedNorcini, John; Grosso, Lou – Applied Measurement in Education, 1998
Ratings of test item relevance were collected from 57 practitioners from a pretest of a medical certifying examination. Ratings were correlated with item difficulty, but the relationship between ratings and item discrimination was less clear. Application of generalizability theory shows that reasonable estimates of item, stem, and total test…
Descriptors: Certification, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Generalizability Theory
Peer reviewedNorcini, John; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1994
Whether anchor item sets varying in difficulty and discrimination affect precision of cutting score equivalents generated through judge rescaling as much as equivalents from score equating was studied with 4 groups of experts and 250 and 1,000 examinees. Results indicate the robustness of judge rescaling and its superiority over equating. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Difficulty Level, Equated Scores
