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To the Editor: Limitations and Alternative Solutions to a USMLE COMLEX-USA Concordance 

Posted: | Daniel Jurich, Chunyan Liu, Amanda Clauser

Journal of Graduate Medical Education: Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 353-354

 

Letter to the editor.

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE, Assessment-Oriented Research, Links to Outcomes

Impact of Both Local Item Dependencies and Cut-Point Locations on Examinee Classifications

Posted: | J. D. Rubright

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 37: 40-45

 

This simulation study demonstrates that the strength of item dependencies and the location of an examination systems’ cut‐points both influence the accuracy (i.e., the sensitivity and specificity) of examinee classifications. Practical implications of these results are discussed in terms of false positive and false negative classifications of test takers.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement, Scoring