Consistency of Angoff-based predictions of item performance: Evidence of technical quality of results from the angoff standard setting method

Journal of Educational Measurement

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 347-355

  Plake, Barbara S ^a   Impara, James C ^a   Irwin, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0034337088     PISSN: 00220655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3984.2000.tb01091.x     Document Type: Article

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