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Evaluating Panelists' Standard Setting Perceptions in a Developing Nation
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Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Buckendahl, Chad W. – International Journal of Testing, 2013
Considerable research about standard setting has revolved around a U.S.-centric policy context. That is, over the past decade, conclusions about thought processes and the interaction of education policy and panelists' judgments have been based on assumptions of comparable policy settings. However, whether these assumptions generalize to other…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Tests, Language Tests
Recommending Cut Scores with a Subset of Items: An Empirical Illustration
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Buckendahl, Chad W.; Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Gerrow, Jack – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
Many testing programs face the practical challenge of having limited resources to conduct comprehensive standard setting studies. Some researchers have suggested that replicating a group's recommended cut score on a full-length test may be possible by using a subset of the items. However, these studies were based on simulated data. This study…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Test Items, Standard Setting (Scoring), Methods
Item Response Theory-Based Approaches for Computing Minimum Passing Scores from an Angoff-Based Standard-Setting Study
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Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Plake, Barbara S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
Even when the scoring of an examination is based on item response theory (IRT), standard-setting methods seldom use this information directly when determining the minimum passing score (MPS) for an examination from an Angoff-based standard-setting study. Often, when IRT scoring is used, the MPS value for a test is converted to an IRT-based theta…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Scoring, Cutting Scores, Item Response Theory
Item Selection Strategy for Reducing the Number of Items Rated in an Angoff Standard Setting Study
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Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Plake, Barbara S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2007
In an Angoff standard setting procedure, judges estimate the probability that a hypothetical randomly selected minimally competent candidate will answer correctly each item in the test. In many cases, these item performance estimates are made twice, with information shared with the panelists between estimates. Especially for long tests, this…
Descriptors: Test Items, Probability, Item Analysis, Standard Setting (Scoring)
The Use of Subsets of Test Questions in an Angoff Standard-Setting Method
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Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Plake, Barbara S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2005
In an Angoff standard-setting procedure, judges estimate the probability that a hypothetical randomly selected minimally competent candidate will answer correctly each item constituting the test. In many cases, these item performance estimates are made twice, with information shared with the judges between estimates. Especially for long tests,…
Descriptors: Test Items, Probability, Standard Setting (Scoring)
Understanding the Factors That Influence Decisions of Panelists in a Standard-Setting Study
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Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Plake, Barbara S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2005
This study addressed what standard-setting panelists think about when they make item performance estimates for a barely proficient student. This study extended previous studies by considering the factors that influenced panelists' decisions in an Angoff (1971)-based standard-setting study as a function of their item performance estimates.…
Descriptors: Test Items, Standard Setting (Scoring), Decision Making, Student Evaluation