Abstract
This chapter builds upon the concepts presented in Chap. 15, making use of setting boundaries on a Wright map to thoughtfully divide student measures into groups (e.g., low, medium, high). This chapter considers the situation in which the different groupings of students have already been defined (e.g., pain levels have already been defined as Levels I, II, III, and IV). The chapter presents the procedure to determine where (in the case of the pain example) each level is located on the Wright map. The chapter finishes up with a student dialog, Keywords and Phrases, Quick Tips, Data Files, References, and Additional Readings. As in almost all chapters, sample analyses are used to reinforce the chapter topic.
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An article that presents the details of using Rasch techniques for standard setting and proficiency classification.
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Boone, W.J., Staver, J.R., Yale, M.S. (2014). Expressing Competency Levels. In: Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6857-4_16
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