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A Consumer’s Guide to Setting Performance Standards on Criterion-Referenced Tests

Johns Hopkins University

This review identifies 38 methods for either setting standards or adjusting them based on an analysis of classification error rates. A trilevel classification scheme is used to categorize the methods, and 10 criteria of technical adequacy and practicability are proposed to evaluate them. The salient characteristics of 23 continuum standard-setting methods are described and evaluated in the form of a "consumer’s guide." Specific recommendations are offered for classroom teachers, educational certification test specialists, licensing and certification boards, and test publishers and independent test contractors.

Review of Educational Research, Vol. 56, No. 1, 137-172 (1986)
DOI: 10.3102/00346543056001137


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