Reconciling Experts' Differences in Setting Cut Scores for Pass-Fail Decisions

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 203-213

  Longford, Nicholas T ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Between rater variation; Cut score; Educational test; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030510782     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986021003203     Document Type: Article

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