Open AccessLOGICAL CONSISTENCY OF THE ANGOFF METHOD OF STANDARD SETTING
Author(s) -
DeMauro Gerald E.,
Powers Donald E.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1993.tb01537.x
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , certification , set (abstract data type) , licensure , test (biology) , computer science , mathematics education , psychology , arithmetic , mathematics , medical education , programming language , medicine , artificial intelligence , political science , paleontology , law , biology
Standard setting on licensure and certification tests is difficult both to execute and to defend. There may, however, be certain minimum standards for standard setting on which most everyone may be able to agree. One such standard is logical consistency. Kane (1984, 1986) has suggested an approach to evaluating the logical consistency of one widely used method to set passing scores–the Angoff procedure (Angoff, 1971). This approach is applied here to the standard setting data obtained in a study of the NTE Specialty Area Test for School Psychology.