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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Giraud, Gerald; Impara, James C. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2005
This qualitative study seeks to tell the story of how teachers, district administrators, and consultants came together to construct a cut score to be recommended to the Willtown Board of Education. Findings suggest that cut score setting is influenced by social and political as well as educational concerns. The findings of this study suggest…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Administrators
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Giraud, Gerald; Impara, James C.; Plake, Barbara S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2005
In cut score setting processes, subject matter experts are asked to make judgments about the likely performance of examinees at a targeted skill level. When cut scores are used in K-12 settings to separate students who have and have not mastered certain skills, the target examinee may be characterized as the barely proficient or barely master…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Cutting Scores, Standard Setting (Scoring), Workshops