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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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Buckendahl, Chad W.; Davis-Becker, Susan L. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2012
The consequences associated with the uses and interpretations of scores for many credentialing testing programs have important implications for a range of stakeholders. Within licensure settings specifically, results from examination programs are often one of the final steps in the process of assessing whether individuals will be allowed to enter…
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Test Items, Dentistry, Minimum Competency Testing
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Buckendahl, Chad W.; Ferdous, Abdullah A.; Gerrow, Jack – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
Many testing programs face the practical challenge of having limited resources to conduct comprehensive standard setting studies. Some researchers have suggested that replicating a group's recommended cut score on a full-length test may be possible by using a subset of the items. However, these studies were based on simulated data. This study…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Test Items, Standard Setting (Scoring), Methods