Appendix
The Lertap control lines shown below would produce complete test statistics for an 80-item test with cut-scoresettings ranging from 50% to 90%. In this example, the first item response is found in data column 2; the *key lineswould normally have 80 entries. Lertap will produce Statsf, Statsb, CSEM, and Statsul reports for each mastery= setting.The first three of these reports will be identical for each setting, but the Statsul reports will have unique information under their Variance Components section, in the lines titled “Index of dependability” and “Prop. consistent placings