KMID : 1139020040010010005
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Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions 2004 Volume.1 No. 1 p.5 ~ p.14
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A Pychometric Approach to Setting a Passing Score on Korean National Medical Licensing Examination
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Lee Kyu-Min
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Abstract
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National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board (hereafter NHPLEB) has used 60% correct responses of overall tests and 40% correct responses of each subject area test as a criterion to give physician licenses to satisfactory candidates. The 60%-40% criterion seems reasonable to laypersons without pychometric or measurement knowledge, but it may causes several severe problems on pychometrician¡¯s perspective. This paper pointed out several problematic cases that can be encountered by using the 60%-40% criterion, and provided several pychometric alternatives that could overcome these problems. A fairly new approach, named Bookmark standard setting method, was introduced and explained in detail as an example. This paper concluded with five considerations when the NHPLEB decides to adopt a pychometric standard setting approach to set a cutscore for a licensure test like medical licensing examination.
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KEYWORD
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Licensure and Certificate Testing, Bookmark Standard Setting, Cutscore, ltem Response Theory, Scaling, Equating, Validity, Pychometrics
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