How sure can we be that a student really failed? On the measurement precision of individual pass-fail decisions from the perspective of Item Response Theory.
Stefan K SchauberMartin HechtPublished in: Medical teacher (2020)
Our results illustrate that the most important decisions-i.e. those based on scores near the pass-fail cut-score-are often ambiguous, and that reporting a traditional reliability coefficient is not an adequate description of the uncertainty encountered on an individual level.