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Nichols, Paul; Twing, Jon; Mueller, Canda D.; O'Malley, Kimberly – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2010
Some writers in the measurement literature have been skeptical of the meaningfulness of achievement standards and described the standard-setting process as blatantly arbitrary. We argue that standard setting is more appropriately conceived of as a measurement process similar to student assessment. The construct being measured is the panelists'…
Descriptors: Scaling, Achievement, Standard Setting (Scoring), Measurement