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Practical Considerations When Setting Test Standards: A Look at the Process Used in Kansas.

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Poggio, John P. – 1984

Kansas law requires setting passing scores for the reading and mathematics competency test for 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 11th grade students, administered annually since April of 1980. New objective-referenced tests are prepared each year. Both judgmental (Angoff, Ebel, and Nedelsky) methods and empirical (contrasting groups and borderline) methods…

Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing

Pilot Student Assessment Program 1st Year Progress Report 1979.

Kansas State Dept. of Education, Topeka. – 1979

The activities and results of the first year of a two-year student assessment pilot program are described, based on a 1978 mandate by the Kansas Legislature requiring the development of minimum competency objectives in the areas of reading and mathematics for students in grades 2, 4, 6, 8, and 11 and instruments for assessing those competencies.…

Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education