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Shulruf, Boaz; Turner, Rolf; Poole, Phillippa; Wilkinson, Tim – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
The decision to pass or fail a medical student is a "high stakes" one. The aim of this study is to introduce and demonstrate the feasibility and practicality of a new objective standard-setting method for determining the pass/fail cut-off score from borderline grades. Three methods for setting up pass/fail cut-off scores were compared: the…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Probability, Medical Schools, Medical Students
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Humphry, Stephen; Heldsinger, Sandra; Andrich, David – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
One of the best-known methods for setting a benchmark standard on a test is that of Angoff and its modifications. When scored dichotomously, judges estimate the probability that a benchmark student has of answering each item correctly. As in most methods of standard setting, it is assumed implicitly that the unit of the latent scale of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standard Setting (Scoring), Judges, Item Response Theory
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Çetin, Sevda; Gelbal, Selahattin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
In this research, the cut score of a foundation university was re-calculated with bookmark method and with Angoff method, each of which is a standard setting method; and the cut scores found were compared with the current proficiency score. Thus, the final cut score was found to be 27.87 with the cooperative work of 17 experts through the Angoff…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Comparative Analysis, Cutting Scores, Correlation