Reconciling Experts’ Differences in Setting Cut Scores for Pass-Fail Decisions

Nicholas T. Longford

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1996, vol. 21, issue 3, 203-213

Abstract: Standard setting is a routine procedure in educational testing. Each examinee in the administration of a test is assigned a score, and the responses of a sample of the examinees are reviewed by a panel of experts. Each expert rates every selected examinee as pass or fail. Based on these ratings a cut score is to be established. A random effects logistic regression method is applied to set the cut score and to estimate the associated standard error. Two examples illustrate that taking account of between-rater differences is essential.

Keywords: between-rater variation; cut score; educational test; logistic regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.3102/10769986021003203

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