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A Procedure to Select and Rank Qualified Applicants Using Perceived Item Difficulty and Perceived Item Relevance.
Lockwood, Robert E. – 1981
To replace traditional methods of minimum competency testing in personnel selection, a two stage cutting score procedure is proposed. The Angoff procedure is modified so that only a subset of test items, which assess essential job related skills, are used to determine the cutting score and to identify qualifed applicants. As a measure of item…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Difficulty Level, Employment Potential, Job Skills
A Descriptive Comparison of Test Items Utilized in Pilot and Live Administrations of the Alabama High School Graduation Examination.
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Steele, D. Joyce – 1985
This paper contains a comparison of descriptive information based on analyses of pilot and live administrations of the Alabama High School Graduation Examination (AHSGE). The test is composed of three subject tests: Reading, Mathematics, and Language. The study was intended to validate the test development procedure by comparing difficulty levels…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Graduation Requirements
A Descriptive Comparison of Test Item Statistics from Items Utilized in an Item Pilot, a Form Pilot, and Live Administrations of the Alabama High School Graduation Examination: The 1991 Update.
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Steele, D. Joyce – 1991
This paper compares descriptive information based on analyses of the pilot and live administrations of the Alabama High School Graduation Examination (AHSGE). The AHSGE, a product of decisions made in 1977 and 1984 by the Alabama State Board of Education, is composed of subject tests in reading, mathematics, and language. The pass score for each…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Grade 11, Graduation Requirements