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Download full textReckase, Mark D. – 2000
The kernel of the Angoff method of standard setting (W. Angoff, 1971) would seem to be the judgment of whether a minimally competent person could answer an item on a test correctly or not. So it would seem that any procedure that requires independent judgment of the correctness or incorrectness of a response to items for a minimally acceptable…
Descriptors: Competence, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedReckase, Mark D. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1998
The process used to identify the provisional locations of points that would inform the National Assessment Governing Board in setting achievement levels for the science National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is described. This process includes identification of panelists for achievement-level setting and the method for converting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys
Reckase, Mark D. – 1998
Standard setting is a fairly widespread activity in educational and psychological measurement, but there is no formal psychometric theory to guide the development of standard setting methodology. This paper presents a conceptual framework for such a psychometric theory and uses the conceptual framework to analyze a number of methods for setting…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Judges, Measurement Techniques
Reckase, Mark D. – 1994
Comparative results are presented for procedures recently appearing in literature related to standard setting on the National Assessment of Educational Progress--the paper selection method and the contrasting group method. For this comparison, a probabilistic model with normal distribution of performance and a six-point scale were assumed. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criteria, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Reckase, Mark D.; And Others – 1995
The research reported in this paper was conducted to gain information to guide the selection of standard setting procedures for use with polytomous items to set achievement levels on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments in U.S. History and geography. Standard-setting procedures were evaluated to determine the relative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Direct linkReckase, Mark D. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2001
This paper provides an analysis of the controversy surrounding the standard setting process conducted by ACT Inc. for the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB). This process is the most thoroughly planned, carefully executed, exhaustively evaluated, completely documented, and most visible of any standard setting process of which the author is…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests, Governing Boards
