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Passing Scores and Test Lengths for Domain-Referenced Measures.
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Millman, Jason – 1972
Procedures for establishing standards and determining the number of items needed in criterion-referenced measures are reviewed. The discussion of setting a passing score is organized around five factors: performance of others, item content, educational consequences, psychological and financial costs, and measurement error. Classical test theory,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Error of Measurement, Models
Passing Scores and Test Lengths for Domain-Referenced Measures
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Millman, Jason – Review of Educational Research, 1973
Procedures for establishing standards and determining the number of items needed in criterion referenced measures were reviewed. Discussion of setting a passing score was organized around: performance of others, item content, educational consequences, psychological and financial costs, and error due to guessing and item sampling. (Author)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Research, Literature Reviews, Measurement Techniques