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Peer reviewedDwyer, Carol Anne – Psychological Assessment, 1996
The uses and abuses of cut scores are examined. The article demonstrates (1) that cut scores always entail judgment; (2) that cut scores inherently result in misclassification; (3) that cut scores impose an artificial dichotomy on an essentially continuous distribution of knowledge, skill, or ability; and (4) that no true cut scores exist. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Cutting Scores, Educational Testing, Error of Measurement
