Setting Standards for Minimum Competency Tests.
William A. Mehrens · 1981
First some general questions about minimum competency tests are discussed. Then various methods of setting standards are re.dewed wit.h major attention devoted to those methods used for dichotomizing a continuum. Methods reviewed under the heading of Absolute Judgments of Test Content include Nedelsky's, Angoff's, Ebel's, and Jaeger's. These methods are compared and a preference for Jaeger's approach is stated. Under Standards based on Judgments about Groups, the Zieky and Livingston contrasting croup and borderline group methods are discussed. The approaches proposed by Berk and Block are briefly discussed as Empirical Methods for Discovering Standards. A summary statement lists some DO NOT'S and DO'S for setting cutting scores.