Norm-Referenced Evaluation in Nursing Education, Characteristics, Steps, Similarities and Difference between Criterion and norm-referenced evaluation

16. NORM
REFERENC
ED
EVALUATIO
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Surendran Radjou

24. CHARACTERISTICS
• This is a test or other type of assessment
designed to provide a measure of performance
that is interpreted in terms of an individual's
relative standing in some known group.

25. :
CHARACTERISTICS
• Norm-referenced test is the selection of items
of average difficulty and the elimination of items
that all students are likely to answer correctly.

26. CHARACTERISTICS
• This procedure provides a wide spread of
scores so that discrimination among students at
various levels of achievement is possible.

27. CHARACTERISTICS
•It is possible to make judgment on the basis of
relative performance or achievement. For e.g.,
selection, relative grading, grouping etc.
• Norm-referenced tests are descriptive in
nature.

28. STEPS
EXAMINING THE
CURRICULUM
INTERPRETING
STUDENT
PERFORMANCE
CONSTRUCTING
NORMS

29. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NRT &
CRT
 • Both require specification of
the achievement domain to
be measured.
 • Both require a selected and
representative sample of test
items.
 • Similar test items are used for
both.

30. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NRT &
CRT
• Item construction needs to
follow similar rules in both of
them.
• Same qualities of goodness are
used for judging
(validity and reliability).
• Educational assessment uses
both CRT & NRT