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A Discussion and Comparison of Selected Methods for Determining Cutoff Scores for Proficiency and Placement Tests. Placement and Proficiency Testing Report No. 6.

Klein, Anna C.; Whitney, Douglas R. – 1977

Procedures and related issues involved in the application of trait-treatment interaction (TTI) to institutional research, in general, and to placement and proficiency testing, in particular, are discussed and illustrated. Traditional methods for choosing cut-off scores are compared and proposals for evaluating the results in the TTI framework are…

Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Equivalency Tests

An Approach to Measuring the Achievement or Proficiency of an Examinee.

Wilcox, Rand R. – 1979

Mastery tests are analyzed in terms of the number of skills to be mastered and the number of items per skill, in order that correct decisions of mastery or nonmastery will be made to a desired degree of probability. It is assumed that a random sample of skills will be selected for measurement, that each skill will be measured by the same number of…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Equivalency Tests