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Shulruf, Boaz; Jones, Phil; Turner, Rolf – Higher Education Studies, 2015
The determination of Pass/Fail decisions over Borderline grades, (i.e., grades which do not clearly distinguish between the competent and incompetent examinees) has been an ongoing challenge for academic institutions. This study utilises the Objective Borderline Method (OBM) to determine examinee ability and item difficulty, and from that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Pass Fail Grading, Decision Making, Probability
Schnipke, Deborah L. – 2002
A common practice in some certification fields (e.g., information technology) is to draw items from an item pool randomly and apply a common passing score, regardless of the items administered. Because these tests are commonly used, it is important to determine how accurate the pass/fail decisions are for such tests and whether fairly small,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Difficulty Level, Item Banks, Pass Fail Grading
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Norcini, 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