Selecting and Implementing Standard-setting Procedures

Standard setting in medical education: fundamental concepts and emerging challenges

  The process of determining the minimum pass level to separate the competent students from those who do not perform well enough is called standard setting. A large number of methods are widely used to set cut-scores for both written and clinical examinations. There are some challenging issues pertaining to any standard setting procedure. Ignoring these concerns would result in a large dispute ...

Standard-setting and Environment

Selecting a Good System: Procedures and Inference

We present two-stage experiment designs for use in simulation experiments that compare systems in terms of their expected (long-run average) performance. These procedures simultaneously achieve the following with a prespecified probability of being correct: (a) find the best system or a near-best system; (b) identify a subset of systems that are more than a practically insignificant difference ...

Implementing standard setting into the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP Part 1 examination - Process and issues.

BACKGROUND The College of General Practitioners of Malaysia and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners held the first Conjoint Member of the College of General Practitioners (MCGP)/Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) examination in 1982, later renamed the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP examinations. The examination assesses competency for safe independent g...

National Examinations in the Netherlands: Standard- Setting Procedures and the Effects of Innovations

The Dutch secondary education system is divided into a number of pre-vocational education levels and two pre-university education levels. To complete one of these tracks successfully, pupils have to pass several examinations. These examinations are a mixture of national and school-based assessments in a number of subjects. This paper will address the specific goals and characteristics of the na...