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10 The Bookmark MethodThe Bookmark procedure may be viewed as a logical successor to a seriesof item-mapping strategies developed in the 1990s in conjunction withstandard settings carried out for the National Assessment of EducationalProgress (NAEP) by researchers at American College Testing (ACT). Earlyitem-mapping techniques were applied less as standard-setting procedures perse than as feedback mechanisms embedded in other procedures (cf. Loomis& Bourque, 2001).In 1996, for example, researchers at ACT employed an item-mapping pro-cedure in conjunction with a Method they referred to as Mean Estimation,which was essentially an extension of the modified Angoff (1971) item-mapping procedure was applied to tests with both multiple-choiceand constructed-response items (Loomis, Bay, Yang, & Hanick, 1999). Itemmaps were used to provide feedback after a second round of item ratings forthe 1996 Science assessment and the 1998 NAEP Civics and Writing assess-ments.
duced the Bookmark method (Lewis, Mitzel, & Green, 1996). Overview of the Bookmark Method The standard Bookmark procedure (Mitzel et al., 2001) is a complete set of activities designed to yield cut scores on the basis of participants’ reviews of collections of test items. The Bookmark procedure is so named because par-
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