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Adding Objectivity to Standard Setting: Evaluating Consequence Using the Conscious and Subconscious Weight Methods

Posted: | B.C. Leventhal, I. Grabovsky

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 39: 30-36

 

This article proposes the conscious weight method and subconscious weight method to bring more objectivity to the standard setting process. To do this, these methods quantify the relative harm of the negative consequences of false positive and false negative misclassification.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement

Visualizing Hierarchical Score Inferences

Posted: | R.A. Feinberg, D.P Jurich

On the Cover. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 38: 5-5

 

This informative graphic reports between‐individual information where a vertical line—with dashed lines on either side indicating an error band—spans three graphics allowing a student to easily see their score relative to four defined performance categories and, more notably, three relevant score distributions.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Scoring