Foundations for Paramedic Education by Amy E. Seymour-Walsh

Author:Amy E. Seymour-Walsh
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030267926
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

What’s a reasonable pass mark?

In many grading systems, 50% is arbitrarily set as a pass mark. Given that in all areas of education, assessments often inform decisions regarding competency, progress and employment, this benchmark should be questioned. Downing and colleagues argue:There is no “gold standard” for a passing score. There is no perfect passing score “out there” waiting to be discovered. Rather, the passing score is whatever a group of content expert judges determine it is, having followed a systematic, reproducible, absolute, and unbiased process. The key to defensible and acceptable standards is the implementation of a careful, systematic method to collect expert judgments, preferably a method that is based on research evidence [23].

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