High scores but low skills

High Medium Low Strengths Skills

Reasoning

Setting pass scores for clinical skills assessment.

In a clinical skills assessment, the decision to pass or fail an examinee should be based on the test content or on the examinees' performance. The process of deciding a pass score is known as setting a standard of the examination. This requires a properly selected panel of expert judges and a suitable standard setting method, which best fits the purpose of the examination. Six standard setting...

High-Performing Students with Low Critical Thinking Skills

The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores

This paper examines whether noncognitive skills – measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters – influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We experimentally varied the rewards for questions in a cognitive test to measure to what extent people are sensitive to ...

How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores? This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to noncognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The students were allocated to 14 tutorials and...