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Passing Scores: A Manual for Setting Standards of Performance on Educational and Occupational Tests.
Download full textLivingston, Samuel A.; Zieky, Michael J. – 1982
This manual is written for the individual responsible for choosing the passing score on an educational or occupational test. It concentrates on practical advice to help select and apply a method for choosing the passing score. Decisions, standards, and judgments are defined and discussed in terms of considerations in choosing a passing score…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Cutting Scores, Educational Testing
Riegel, Rodney P.; Lovell, Ned B. – 1980
The phenomenon of minimum competency testing (MCT) is explored, beginning with its origins in public concern for educational accountability. Three major themes appearing in the states enacting prescriptive legislation are described: state standards/state test (Florida); state standards/local test (Oregon); and local standards/local test…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Administrative Problems, Community Attitudes
Northwest Regional Education Lab., Portland, OR. Clearinghouse for Applied Performance Testing. – 1978
Seven prepared papers, with questions from the audience and answers by participants make up the proceedings of this conference on minimum competency testing. A number of conceptual and technical problems were raised, as well as questions about the effects of minimum competency testing on the curriculum and the psychological effects of the program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Conference Reports
Jaeger, Richard M., Ed.; Tittle, Carol Kehr, Ed.
Addressing often neglected broad issues, rather than the pragmatics of test development and administration, this Conference on Minimum Competency Achievement Testing was organized around six topics: (1) social and philosophical roots, uniqueness among testing movements, and policy issues; (2) legal, curricular, and social-demographic consequences;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Curriculum
