ABSTRACT
Standard setting is ‘the process of establishing one or more cut scores on examinations. The cut scores divide the distribution of examinees’ test performances into two or more categories’ (Cizek and Bunch, 2007: 5). ‘Standards-based assessment’ uses tests to assess learner performance and achievement in relation to an absolute standard; it is therefore often said to be a development of criterion-referenced testing, even though the tests used are most frequently of the large-scale standardised variety.
