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Confidence Intervals for the Proportion of Mastery in Criterion‐Referenced Measurement
Author(s) -
Feldt Leonard S.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1996.tb00482.x
Subject(s) - confidence interval , computer science , statistics , binomial distribution , binomial (polynomial) , mathematics education , mathematics
A relatively simple method is developed to obtain confidence intervals for a student's proportion of domain mastery in criterion‐referenced or mastery measurement situations. The method uses the binomial distribution as a model for the student's scores under hypothetically repeated assessments. Though the use of this model is not a new idea, the method of implementation has not been proposed previously. The technique makes use of widely available F tables and hence does not require elaborate computer equipment or proprietary computer programs.