Scoring Drift Refers to

question 122

Multiple Choice

Scoring drift refers to

• A) the tendency of scorers to give higher scores to testtakers with certain characteristics (such as age and gender) that is similar to themselves.
• B) differences between the typical scoring of an item during standardization and subsequent, more authoritative scoring of an item.
• C) a gradual decline in inter-scorer reliability after 95% of the examinations have been scored due to scorer fatigue.
• D) a flexible method of scoring test items for populations other than that of the standardization sample.

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