Embedded Standard Setting (ESS; Lewis & Cook, 2020) transforms standard setting from a standalone workshop to an active part of the assessment development lifecycle. ESS purports to lower costs by eliminating the standard-setting workshop and enhance the validity argument by maintaining a consistent focus on the evidentiary relationship…

This study examined the relationships between the evaluations obtained from standard setting panelists and changes in ratings between different rounds of a standard setting study that involved setting standards on different language versions of an exam. We investigated panelists' evaluations to determine if their perceptions of the standard…

Psychometricians continue to introduce new approaches to setting cut scores for educational assessments in an attempt to improve on current methods. In this paper we describe the Item-Descriptor (ID) Matching method, a method based on IRT item mapping. In ID Matching, test content area experts match items (i.e., their judgments about the knowledge…