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Kansas test standard-setting panels recommend new cut-score impacts after weeklong review; board to adopt scale in August
Summary
State-contracted panels of Kansas educators completed a weeklong bookmark standard-setting process in June and presented recommended cut-score impacts to the State Board on July 8. The board received the recommendations and will consider the final numeric scale at an August meeting.
TOPEKA '1 Kansas State Board of Education members on July 8 received the technical outcome of a June standard-setting meeting that recommended new cut scores and impact distributions for the redesigned state English-language arts, math and science assessments.
The standard-setting exercise used the widely accepted "bookmark" method. The process brought 141 Kansas educators together in grade-band panels to map test items (ordered by difficulty) to performance-level descriptions drafted by the department and to place threshold bookmarks for performance levels. Panels then reviewed impact data and participated in cross-grade articulation before producing recommended cut points.
KSDE contracted with the University of Kansas and an outside psychometrician to facilitate the work and to observe the technical process. An independent technical advisory member from the Human Resources Research Organization (HUMRO) observed the meetings and…
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