A comparison of two different methods for setting performance standards for a test with constructed-response items

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Näsström, Gunilla ^a   Nyström, Peter ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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