Analysis of 2014 Post UTME Score of Candidates in the University of Ibadan with Two Methods of Standard Setting to Set Cut Off Points

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 44 - 51, 01.07.2017

Babatunde Oladele

https://doi.org/10.24331/ijere.328451

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The aim
of the current study is to analyse the 2014 Post UTME scores of candidates in
the university of Ibadan towards the establishment of cut off using two
methods of standard settings. Prospective candidates who seek admission to
higher institution are often denied admission through the Post UTME exercise.
There is no single recommended approach to standard setting and many methods
exist. These include norm-referenced methods and the criterion- referenced
methods. The Angoff method is the most widely used and researched
criterion-referenced method of standard setting. Two different methods of
standard setting were applied on the raw scores of 648 Post-UTME candidates in
the University of Ibadan. One of these was the modified Angoff method and the
other the norm-reference method of standard setting (mean minus 1 SD). The
pass rates derived from the two methods were compared. The result revealed the
pass rate with the norm-reference method was 85% (551/648) and that by the
Angoff method was 50% (340/648). The percentage agreement between Angoff
method and norm-reference was found to be 54% with the Angolf modified method,
whilst by the norm-reference method was 85%. Thus, the two standard-setting
methods used, produced significantly different outcomes. This was demonstrated
by the different pass rates.

Keywords

Cut-Off Point, Post-UTME, Standard

References

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