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Book Review: Standard Setting Should Include Both the Development of Performance Standards and the Setting of Cutscores

Setting performance standards: Concepts, methods, and perspectives (Cizek, 2001) is an edited textbook that contains 19 chapters organized into three parts. The list of authors of the chapters is impressive and the chapter topics and contents reflect the state of the art of standard setting today. However, the text misses the opportunity to bring some clarity to standard setting. It is the thesis of the present reviewers that, in agreement with Michael Kane (see Chapter 3), there is a difference between a performance standard and a cutscore: