Setting Performance Standards：Foundations, Methods, and Innovations

A second edition was definitely due, the first having been published in 2001 (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). Performance standards are ubiquitous in all types of educational, business, professional, and service organizations, and the topic is a thorny one. This volume is a comprehensive resource for educators, policy makers, managers, and others seeking information about issues, concepts, and methods. The heart of the book consists of reviews of 16 standard setting methods--those that have stood the test of time and some that are new. Cizek (educational measurement and evaluation, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has overseen the revisions and substantial expansion of this reference. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gregory J. Cizek (PhD Michigan State University) is Professor of Educational Measurement and Evaluation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses in applied testing, statistics, and research methods. The author or editor of numerous books, he is the President-Elect of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).