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Equalisation
Equalisation
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series 2
score percentile rank
1 0.00%
2 5.50%
3 11.10%
4 16.60%
5 22.20%
6 27.70%
7 33.30%
8 38.80%
9 44.40%
10 50.00%
11 55.50%
12 61.10%
13 66.60%
14 72.20%
15 77.70%
16 83.30%
17 88.80%
18 94.40%
19 100.00%
series 1
score percentile rank
3 0.00%
4 5.20%
5 10.50%
6 15.70%
7 21.00%
8 26.30%
9 31.50%
10 36.80%
11 42.10%
12 47.30%
13 52.60%
14 57.80%
15 63.10%
16 68.40%
17 73.60%
18 78.90%
19 84.20%
20 89.40%
21 94.70%
22 100.00%
The above graph shows both percentile ranks of series 1 and 2 are put together
in order to enable the percentile score of one raw mark of series-1 to be slightly
different from the raw mark score of series-2. The percentile rank of 17 in
series -1 is 88.8% and in series -2 the same score of 17 has a percentile of
93.6%.
In the method of equi-percentile equating, a cut-off of a percentile rank to
qualify for selection is to be fixed, say 75 percentile and this common 75
percentile has a raw score of 14.5 in series-1 and 15.26 in series-2. Therefore,
anyone who gets more than 14.5 in series -1 and 15.26 in series 2 will qualify
and the equi-percentile is 75.
SSC PROPOSES TO USE THE EQUIPERCENTILE METHOD IN VIEW OF ITS
SIMPLICITY
d) Equating using Item Response Theory (IRT)
Basic Concepts
Ability (): Ability is measured on the scale (-3 to +3)
Item difficulty (b): The item difficulty of an item and the ability of the
test taker are on the same scale. it is invariably taken as the middle point
of the item characteristic curve where the curve shows a tendency of
contra flexure that is bending in the opposite directions (-3 to +3)
Both of these are on the same scale and along the x-axis
Probability of getting the correct answer (0 to 1) on the y-axis
This is a fraction like 0.75which means if a person of particular ability
say ( any ability between -3 and +3) attempts 100 times the same item
75 times he will get it right and 25 times he will get it wrong.
Fred Lords Model
- +
-3 + 3
- 4 + 4
tan = a Item
discrimination
Item Difficulty b
Guessing c
Pi ()
(probabilit
y of
getting
answer
right on
any item I
with ability
)
0.5
+1.0
1-c
Types of equating in IRT
i) Horizontal equating
ii) Vertical equating
Horizontal equating is equating scales of about the same ability
Vertical equating is equating scales across completely different levels of ability
THE COMMISSION DOES NOT USE IRT IN ITS EXAMINATIONS.