Equating standards through statistical scaling

Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:15 - 12:45, Bastille

Chair

Paul Newton

United Kingdom

Maintaining standards in the national senior certificate examinations

Vijayen D Naidoo, Umalusi (Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education, South Africa

The dilemma of equating examinations and assessment standards for the National senior Certificate in South Africa

Coert F Loock, Gauteng Examinations and Assessment Board and University of Johannesburg, South Africa

A comparability study using a rank-ordering methodology at syllabus level between examination boards

Louis W K Yim, Cambridge, Assessment, University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), United Kingdom