Standard setting in written assessment

Majed M. Wadi

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-11752-7_10

Standard setting in written assessment

Majed M. Wadi

Postgraduate Medicine

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Abstract

The term "standard setting" refers to the process of establishing the minimum passing score for students on a test. It is not simply a matter of arbitrarily establishing a cut score for a test; rather, it is a laborious process by which a panel determines the cut score for a specific test in a particular context. In medication education, certifying medical students as a doctor is very critical. The decision made to graduate health-care practitioners should be based on rigorous methods to determine how much graduated doctors are safe for people's lives. For this reason, standard setting lays at the heart of the assessment. This chapter illuminates the standard setting process and discusses pertinent methods used in medical education, particularly for written tests. By the end of this chapter, the reader is expected to be able to 1. Recognize concepts in standard setting and their importance in medical and health professions education. 2. Explain the common methods of standard setting in written assessment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Written Assessment in Medical Education
Editors	Hosam Eldeen Elsadig Gasmalla, Alaa AbuElgasim Mohamed Ibrahim, Majed M. Wadi, Mohamed H. Taha
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	10
Pages	137-146
Number of pages	10
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031117527
ISBN (Print)	9783031117510, 9783031117541
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11752-7_10
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

Angoff method
Borderline student
Ebel method
Standard setting

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General Social Sciences

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