Standard Setting in Assessment
Standard Setting is the methodology used to define the level of knowledge and skills needed for someone to be classified as above a standard and to set cut scores corresponding to that level. A cut-score is the score on the test or assessment that is chosen to select or classify test taker with respect to the performance standard. It is the score that is claimed to distinguish between those who have satisfied the performance standard and those who have not. Standard setting should fairly and accurately differentiate between different levels of student performance. If the cut scores are not appropriately chosen, the result of assessment could come into question. The distinction between performance standard setting …show more content…
Select Judges
2. Define borderline skill and knowledge
3. Train judges in any type of method chosen
4. Collect Judgment
5. Combine judgment to have passing scores
Nedelsky’s Method
This method is suggested by Leo Nedelsky in 1954 and can only be used with multiple choice questions. This method is based on the idea that borderline test taker firstly will eliminate the wrong answer which he/she finds wrong in MCQS and then respond randomly to remaining choices. By applying following rules we can find the borderline test taker score in test:
1. For any question the expected score is 1 divided, by the number of choices the test taker has to guess from.
2. To find test taker expected score, add test taker expected scores for all the questions in whole test.
Once all the judges give their judgment about all the questions in test, compute it through mean or median or trimmed mean and make final consensus judgment about scores of borderline test taker expected to get in test.
Main limitation of this method is that it can only be done with Multiple Choice questions. Moreover, this method assume that the borderline student knows the wrong alternatives and only has to guess randomly among remaining answers.
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The universities and colleges are basically offering programs and courses that are more or less similar. But different teachers are teaching these courses at different areas and time. When it comes to the cut-off score to these courses the teachers use their own way of grading them and the cut-off point is different for different teachers teaching the same course. These differences bother the newly authorized body for quality of education and accreditation. Different teachers use their own discretion in determining cut-off score; hence there is a need for standardization because every teacher sets standardization procedures in its own way. An important fact to remember is that the choice of standard setting method has both psychometric and policy
Standard Setting is the methodology used to define the level of knowledge and skills needed for someone to be classified as above a standard and to set cut scores corresponding to that level. A cut-score is the score on the test or assessment that is chosen to select or classify test taker with respect to the performance standard. It is the score that is claimed to distinguish between those who have satisfied the performance standard and those who have not. Standard setting should fairly and accurately differentiate between different levels of student performance. If the cut scores are not appropriately chosen, the result of assessment could come into question. The distinction between performance standard setting …show more content…
Select Judges
2. Define borderline skill and knowledge
3. Train judges in any type of method chosen
4. Collect Judgment
5. Combine judgment to have passing scores
Nedelsky’s Method
This method is suggested by Leo Nedelsky in 1954 and can only be used with multiple choice questions. This method is based on the idea that borderline test taker firstly will eliminate the wrong answer which he/she finds wrong in MCQS and then respond randomly to remaining choices. By applying following rules we can find the borderline test taker score in test:
1. For any question the expected score is 1 divided, by the number of choices the test taker has to guess from.
2. To find test taker expected score, add test taker expected scores for all the questions in whole test.
Once all the judges give their judgment about all the questions in test, compute it through mean or median or trimmed mean and make final consensus judgment about scores of borderline test taker expected to get in test.
Main limitation of this method is that it can only be done with Multiple Choice questions. Moreover, this method assume that the borderline student knows the wrong alternatives and only has to guess randomly among remaining answers.
Angoff …show more content…
The universities and colleges are basically offering programs and courses that are more or less similar. But different teachers are teaching these courses at different areas and time. When it comes to the cut-off score to these courses the teachers use their own way of grading them and the cut-off point is different for different teachers teaching the same course. These differences bother the newly authorized body for quality of education and accreditation. Different teachers use their own discretion in determining cut-off score; hence there is a need for standardization because every teacher sets standardization procedures in its own way. An important fact to remember is that the choice of standard setting method has both psychometric and policy