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A Framework for Viewing the Process of Standard Setting.
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Hambleton, Ronald K.; Powell, Sally – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1983
To address the issues associated with testing standards, sets of context-setting variables and technical matters associated with standard-setting are presented to assist groups or committees desiring to set standards in a systematic way. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Certification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Research on Standards for Professional Licensure and Certification Examinations.
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Norcini, John J. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1994
An agenda for research on standards for professional licensure and certification examinations is outlined. The relationship between scores and standards is explored, and major classes of standards are described. Topics for future research are discussed in the areas of judgment basis, process efficiency, group effects, and content and expertise…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Certification, Context Effect, Decision Making
The Consistency and Uncertainty in Examiners' Definitions of Pass/Fail Performance on OSCE Stations.
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Rothman, Arthur I.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1996
Results of the fall 1993 administration of part two of the Medical Council of Canada's Evaluating Examination for 744 candidates provided evidence of the consistency of the pass/fail and cutting score definitions for the objective- structured clinical examination stations used across examiners. These results support the validity of this…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Definitions, Foreign Countries, Medical Education
Setting Standards for Credentialing Examinations. An Update.
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Meskauskas, John A. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Two new indices of stability of content-referenced standard-setting results are presented, relating variability of judges' decisions to the variability of candidate scores and to the reliability of the test. These indices are used to indicate whether scores resulting from a standard-setting study are of sufficient precision. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Certification, Credentials, Error of Measurement, Generalizability Theory
Scoring and Standard Setting with Standardized Patients.
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Norcini, John J.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1993
The continuous method of scoring a performance test composed of standardized patients was compared with a derivative method that assigned each of the 131 examinees (medical residents) a dichotomous score, and use of Angoff's method with these scoring methods was studied. Both methods produce reasonable means and distributions of scores. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education, Medical Education
Setting, Evaluating, and Maintaining Certification Standards with the Rasch Model.
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Grosse, Martin E.; Wright, Benjamin D. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Based on the standard setting procedures or the American Board of Preventive Medicine for their Core Test, this article describes how Rasch measurement can facilitate using test content judgments in setting a standard. Rasch measurement can then be used to evaluate and improve the precision of the standard and to hold it constant across time.…
Descriptors: Certification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Health Personnel
Setting Standards for Multiple-Choice Items in Clinical Reasoning.
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Maguire, Thomas; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
It is argued that the modification of the Nedelsky procedure proposed by L. J. Gross is a valid approach to setting standards when clinical reasoning is measured using multiple-choice questions. An example from the Medical Council of Canada's Qualifying Examination for approximately 2,400 examinees demonstrates the procedure's value. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Technical Advances in Credentialing Examinations.
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Hambleton, Ronald K; Rogers, H. Jane – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Technical advances of the last 15 years in measurement theory and practice are described, notably criterion-referenced testing, item response theory, and computers and testing. Several remaining problems concerning the development and validation of credentialing examinations are also considered. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Certification, Computer Assisted Testing, Credentials, Criterion Referenced Tests