Effects of Item Context on Intrajudge Consistency of Expert Judgments via the Nedelsky Standard Setting Method.

Plake, Barbara S.; Melican, Gerald J.

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Publication Date: 1989

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Effects of Item Context on Intrajudge Consistency of Expert Judgments via the Nedelsky Standard Setting Method.

Plake, Barbara S.; Melican, Gerald J.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, v49 n1 p45-51 Spr 1989

The impact of overall test length and difficulty on the expert judgments of item performance by the Nedelsky method were studied. Five university-level instructors predicting the performance of minimally competent candidates on a mathematics examination were fairly consistent in their assessments regardless of length or difficulty of the test. (SLD)

Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluators, Higher Education, Interrater Reliability, Item Analysis, Item Banks, Mathematics Tests, Minimum Competency Testing, Predictive Measurement, Professors, Scoring, Standard Setting (Scoring), Standards, Test Length

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