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Standard Setting: What Is It? Why Is It Important?
No. 7 October 2008 Standard Setting: What Is It? Why Is It Important? By Isaac I. Bejar tandard setting is a critical part of educational , licensing, and certification testing . But outside of the cadre of practitioners, this aspect of test development is not well understood. Standard setting is the methodology used to define levels of achievement or proficiency and the cutscores corresponding to those levels. A cutscore is simply the score that serves to classify the students whose score is below the cutscore into one level and the students whose score is at or above the cutscore into the next and higher level. Clearly, unless the cutscores are appropriately set, the results of the assessment could come into question. For that reason, Standard setting is a critical component of the test development process. This brief article does not address the technicalities of the process, for which readers can consult several references (Cizek & Bunch, 2007; Hambleton & Pitoniak, 2006; Zieky, Perie, & Livingston, 2008).
No. 7 • October 2008 Standard Setting: What Is It? Why Is It Important? By Isaac I. Bejar tandard setting is a critical part of educational, licensing, and certification
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