They are then asked to go through the items in order of difficulty and to stop at the item that they believe would be answered correctly by a specified percentage of the marginally proficient students they have imagined. This percentage, called the response probability, is often set at 67 percent, but there is no compelling reason why it has to be, and panels have used a variety of response probabilities ranging at least from 50 percent to 80 percent.
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