Performance Standard Setting 2008
Michael C. Rodriguez

Goal:

This course will enable students to understand the principles of setting performance standards in a variety of settings, with a focus on achievement tests.  Students will engage in standard setting exercises, analyze real data from standard setting procedures in state testing programs, and investigate current literature in standard setting practices.

Students will be able to:

• Understand the purposes of standard setting and the context in which it is conducted;
• Distinguish between standard setting methodologies;
• Appreciate the importance of standard setting to test development;
• Interpret results from standard setting analyses;
• Design reasonable and useful standard setting studies;
• Identify appropriate and inappropriate uses and interpretations of standard setting results.