Standard setting in education : the Nordic countries in an international perspective / Sigrid Blömeke, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blömeke, Sigrid, editor.

Gustafsson, Jan-Eric, 1949- editor.

Series:

Methodology of educational measurement and assessment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Standards--Scandinavia.

Education.

Education--Standards.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

vi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Nordic countries in an international perspective

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education. By critically discussing the standard-setting practices implemented in the Nordic countries and by presenting new methodological approaches, it offers fresh perspectives on the current research. Standard setting targets crucial societal objectives by defining educational benchmarks at different achievement levels, and provides feedback to policy makers, schools and teachers about the strengths and weaknesses of a school system. Given that the consequences standard setting can be dramatic, the quality of standard setting is a prime concern. If it fails, repercussions can be expected in terms of arbitrary evaluations of educational policy, wrong turns in school or teacher development or misplacement of individual students. Standard setting therefore needs to be accurate, reliable, valid, useful, and defensible. However, specific evidence on the benefits and limits of different approaches to standard setting is rare and scattered, and there is a particular lack with respect to standard setting in the Nordic countries, where the number of national tests is increasing and there are concerns about the time and effort spent on testing at schools without feedback being provided. Addressing this gap, the book offers a discussion on standard setting by respected experts as well as profound and innovative insights into fundamental aspects of standard setting including conclusions for future methodological and policy-related research.

Contents:

Fundamental questions in standard setting

Using empirical results to validate performance standards / Michael T. Kane

Weaknesses of the traditional view of standard setting and a suggested alternative / Mark Wilson and Maria Veronica Santelices

Standard setting : bridging the worlds of policy making and research / Hans Anand Pant, Simon P. Tiffin-Richards, and Petra Stanat

Standard setting in PISA and TIMSS and how these procedures can be used nationally / Rolf Vegar Olsen and Trude Nilsen

In the science and practice of standard setting : where is the science?? / Barbara Sterrett Plake

Standard-setting in Nordic countries

Standard setting in Denmark : challenges through computer-based adaptive testing / Peter Allerup and Christian Christrup Kjeldsen

Experiences with standards and criteria in Sweden / Gudrun Erickson

Validating standard setting : comparing judgmental and statistical linking / Anna Lind Pantzare

National tests in Norway : an undeclared standard in education? Practical and political implications of norm-referenced standards / Idunn Seland and Elisabeth Hovdhaugen

Setting standards for multistage tests of Norwegian for adult immigrants / Eli Moe and Norman Verhelst

Standard setting in a formative assessment of digital responsibility among Norwegian eighth graders / Ove Edvard Hatlevik and Ingrid Radtke

Assessment for learning and standards : a Norwegian strategy and its challenges / Gustaf B. Skar, Ragnar Thygesen, and Lars Sigfred Evensen

How do Finns know? Educational monitoring without inspection and its challenges / Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen, Helena Thuneberg, Jukka Marjanen, Jarkko Hautamäki, Sirkku Kupiainen, and Risto Hotulainen

New methodological approaches to standard-setting

The data-driven consensus (3DC) procedure : a new approach to standard setting / Jos Keuning, J. Hendrik Straat, and Remco C.W. Feskens

Using professional judgment to equate exam standards / Alastair Pollitt

Closing the loop : providing test developers with performance level descriptors so standard setters can do their job / Amanda A. Wolkowitz, James C. Impara, and Chad W. Buckendahl

Setting standards to a scientific literary test for adults using the item-descriptor (ID) matching method / Linda I. Haschke, Nele Kampa, Inga Hahn, and Olaf Köller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Standard setting in education.

ISBN:

3319508555

9783319508559

OCLC:

962895652