This paper outlines recommended principles to guide the establishment of a standard-setting process for accountability systems and describes a framework for implementing standard-setting. The principles and framework are based on […]
Topics: Standard Setting
This paper, presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education in Washington, DC, describes the increased departure from performance standards and cut scores that simply […]
This paper provides guidelines for establishing performance criteria within an educator evaluation system. It was written to support state and district practitioners‚ those typically tasked with designing such systems. But […]
This handbook and corresponding PowerPoints provide a guide for building range and target performance-level descriptors for large-scale assessments that are designed for the multiple purposes of measuring student achievement and […]
This presentation focuses on how the definition of “proficient” varies across states. It illustrates how the definitions can lead to variances in cut scores and percent proficient and describes best […]
This document outlines required elements for a standard-setting plan and technical manual and provides a suggested outline for vendors to follow in preparing such reports for their state technical advisory […]
This paper, presented at the 2008 NCME annual meeting, explores using learning progression to inform the development of performance-level descriptors. It addresses descriptors for general, modified, and alternate assessments and […]
This presentation, given at the OSEP meeting for new GSEGs, proposes ideas for developing achievement level descriptors for the AA-MAS, or modified assessment. It discusses the relationships among the steps […]
This draft report discusses the steps for developing alternate achievement standards for students with significant cognitive disabilities and provides guidance on how to run a sound standard-setting study. It focuses […]
This paper describes how performance level descriptors should be developed, contrasts that with current state practice, and discusses the implication for interpreting the word “proficient,” the keystone of No Child […]
The final technical phase in many large-scale assessment standard setting projects, when multiple grades are tested, is the articulation meeting, which brings policymakers and other stakeholders together to review the […]
The Center organized a standard-setting session for a 2004 conference. The session focused on standard-setting as a process that begins with the development of content standards, rather than with the […]
Validity Evidence for AssessmentsSuzanne Lane, University of Pittsburgh Setting Performance Standards on Educational Assessments and Criteria for Evaluating the ProcessRonald K Hambleton, University of Massachusetts at Amherst