Standard setting using programmatic thinking for small cohort performance‐based exams

Grading in Games of Status: Marking Exams and Setting Wages

We introduce grading into games of status. Each player chooses effort, producing a stochastic output or score. Utilities depend on the ranking of all the scores. By clustering scores into grades, the ranking is coarsened, and the incentives to work are changed. We first apply games of status to grading exams. Our main conclusion is that if students care primarily about their status (relative ra...

Programmatic Testing of the Standard Template Library Containers

This paper describes part of an STL conformance test suite currently under development. Test suites for all of the STL containers have been written, demonstrating the feasibility of thorough and highly automated testing of industrial component libraries. We describe affordable test suites that provide good code and boundary value coverage, including the thousands of cases that naturally occur f...

Standard-setting and Environment

Criterion Item Standard Setting

A method for establishing a minimum passing standard for a multiple choice test is described. The procedure is based on expert judgment about the content of test items. The method can also be used to monitor or adjust a standard that is already in place. The procedure carries advantages that are not available from other approaches to standard setting. It is easy to implement and easy for partic...

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 ...