Accounting for Unit of Scale in Standard Setting Methodologies: An Examination of the Setting of Standards in the Australian Context - Softcover

Heldsinger, Sandy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639022513 ISBN 13: 9783639022513

Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Substantial sums of money are invested by governments in school testing programs and in reporting student performance against standards.Standard-setting exercises are commonly used to determine the point at which it can be said that students have demonstrated achievement of the standard. These exercises invariably take place in situations where the reporting of educational standards has a high profile and is of political importance. Often a wide number of judges are invited to participate and two or three different standard setting methodologies are used. Inevitably, however, variability between the judges or the methodologies causes concern. Can the public have confidence in the standard set if different cut-scores are produced?Two different standard-setting methodologies have been employed in this study to translate descriptions of the standards into cut-scores. The study provides the opportunity to examine the impact that differences in the unit of scale have on the location of the cut-score.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3639022513
• ISBN 13: 9783639022513
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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