Question

3. Cutoff Scores:

In a certain City of Townsville, people love their dogs. Dog groomers are very popular and are found throughout the city. In order to become a dog groomer, one must obtain a coveted “dog groomer license” which is granted by the City. In order to be awarded such license, a person must pass a city administered “dog groomer license” test. The City has hired you to explain to them how to set a cut score so they can decide for themselves where to where set it for their test. Their goals are to 1. make sure someone who is awarded a license can in fact groom dogs, and 2. to make sure too many people aren’t awarded licenses reducing their value and prestige.

Records indicate that approximately 250 people take the licensing test each year and of those, roughly 75 licenses are awarded. Assume that the distribution of scores on the test is approximately normal. In your recommendation to the City, provide the following information:

A.    The steps you would take to determine a criterion-referenced cut score:

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           B. The steps you would take to determine a norm referenced cut score

           C. The advantages and disadvantages of each method

           D. How the cut score impacts their two goals above (you can talk about false                           positive and false negative errors here)

(Since no detail is provided with respect to individual test scores, you don’t need to be detailed with what particular score a cut-off would be set at. It is more important for the City to understand conceptually what each method is, the steps needed to do each one, and what effects raising or lowering the cut score will produce.)

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Answer 1

As the question explains for a dog groomer, important points to be noted while giving are grooming the dog with care, get good feedback from their customers, maintain their service all around the year.

We can actually divide these licence seekers as freashly applied and renewal. For freashly arrival, we have to conduct test for them by giving practical tests to identify how they will grrom the dog when licence is issued and even we can ask the few dog lovers to evaluate them based on different categories which I mentioned earlier. By taking the average from both our test and customers reviews, we can provide the licence.

For the renewal case, we have to check their feedback and again tested with all the criteria to check about their quality, so that it's easy for us to know their change with earlier work and give the renewal and keep a track on their work, if they didn't completely clear all those criteria, their licence can be siezed which will create a good thought for everyone including the customers and dog groomers to get good service and do good service for the dogs.

In this method, we can easily track one's work quality and react accordingly as the licence is provided for only one year.