Editors:
- Bridges the gap between highly complex methodological issues and policy implications
- Reflects the status of standard-setting approaches implemented in many European countries with suggestions how to proceed
- The first book that systematically examines standard setting in the Nordic countries
- Presents new methodological approaches to standard setting
Part of the book series: Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment (MEMA)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamental Questions in Standard Setting
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Standard-Setting in the Nordic Countries
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New Methodological Approaches to Standard-Setting
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About this book
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 of 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.
Keywords
- Methods of standard setting
- National tests
- Research on standard setting
- Defining achievement levels
- Cut scores
- Educational monitoring
- Performance level descriptors
- Assessment of learning
- Assessment for learning
- Formative assessment
- Summative assessment
- Standard setting in Norway
- Standard setting in Sweden
- Standard setting in Denmark
- Standard setting in Finland
Editors and Affiliations
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Centre for Educational Measurement at the University of Oslo (CEMO), Oslo, Norway
Sigrid Blömeke
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Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jan-Eric Gustafsson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Standard Setting in Education
Book Subtitle: The Nordic Countries in an International Perspective
Editors: Sigrid Blömeke, Jan-Eric Gustafsson
Series Title: Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50856-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50855-9Published: 03 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84508-1Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50856-6Published: 27 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2367-170X
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1718
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 339
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law