Unlike other forms of adaptive testing, multistage testing (MST) is highly suitable for testing
educational achievement because it can be adapted to educational surveys and student …

ABSTRACT The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) describes language
proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening on a 6‐level scale. In this study …

Th e methodology typically called standard setting consists of two parts:(a) a structured
means for collecting judgments from individuals about the desired level or levels of …

By convention, performance measurement from the business perspective is executed using
the accounting standard costing and variance analysis doctrine. However, this practice is …

In this chapter we review five principled approaches to assessment design, development,
and implementation: evidence‐centered design, cognitive design systems, assessment …

Standard setting is the methodology used to define levels of achievement or proficiency and
the cutscores corresponding to those levels. A cutscore is simply the score that serves to …

Assessment engineering is a new way to design and implement scalable, sustainable and
ideally lower-cost solutions to the complexities of designing and develo** tests. It …

Although there has been substantial work on argument-based approaches to validation as
well as standard-setting methodologies, it might not always be clear how standard setting fits …

Performance level descriptors (PLDs) 1 are ubiquitous in K–12 student achievement testing,
appearing on websites of state departments of education, on score reports, and in test …

A major motivation for this book is to improve the assessment of student learning, regardless
of whether the context is K-12 education, higher education, professional education, or …