What is the due date for Assignment B: A handout on a type of test item?
100
The point on the score scale at which 50% of the scores are below and 50% are above.
What is the median?
We will discuss this in Module 4.
100
Used to improve teaching and guide students' learning.
What is formative assessment?
We will discuss this in Module 2.
100
An organization that administers and scores more than 50 million assessment tests annually in more than 180 countries, at more than 9,000 locations worldwide.
What is the Educational Testing Service?
We will discuss this in Module 3.
100
The five sources of validity evidence.
What is content, internal structure, relations to other variables, response process, and consequences.
We will discuss this in Module 6.
200
An assignment that you will complete in three stages.
What is Assignment A?
200
The consistency of measurements when testing procedures are repeated on a population of individuals or groups.
What is reliability?
We will discuss this in Module 7.
200
Used to make judgments about the quality or worth of students' achievement after the instructional process is completed.
What is summative assessment?
We will discuss this in Module 2.
200
Something that outlines and defines what should be included on a test. It also provides validity evidence for test results and interpretations.
What is a blueprint or table of specifications?
We will discuss this in Module 3.
200
Three types of reliability.
What are inter-rater reliability, test-retest (intra-rater reliability), and internal consistency?
We will discuss this in Module 7.
300
October 12, 2015
What is Study Week? (No module)
300
Criteria for the evaluation of tests, testing practices, and test use.
What are The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing?
We will be using The Standards throughout the course.
300
A framework for interpreting a student’s score by comparing his or her test performance with the performance of other students in a well-defined group who took the same test.
What is norm-referencing?
We will discuss this in Module 9.
300
Types of test items.
What are multiple choice, matching, true-false, essay, and short answer?
We will discuss this in Module 5.
300
EQAO
What is the Education Quality and Accountability Office?
We will dicuss this in Module 10.
400
Four
What is the number of learning activities that will be graded?
Please see Assignment C for more details.
400
The soundness of interpretations and uses of students’ assessment results.
What is validity?
We will discuss this in Module 6.
400
Statistics used to determine whether the changes observed in a sample are likely to be true of the population that the sample is intended to represent.
What is inferential statistics?
We will discuss this in Module 4.
400
Psychometric procedures used to test the reliability, difficulty, and quality of test items.
What are test theories?
We will discuss this in Module 8.
400
Intangible collections of abstract concepts and principles which are inferred from behavior and explained by educational or psychological theory.
What are constructs?
We will discuss this in Module 6.
500
The 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.
What is a required text for the course?
500
Tests designed to measure student performance against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or learning standards.
What are criterion referenced tests?
We will discuss this in Module 9.
500
A statistical index of the degree of association between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?
We will discuss this in Module 4.
500
Use plausible distractors; avoid illogical distractors.
What is a guideline for developing multiple-choice questions?
We will discuss this in Module 5.
500
A complex web of economic, social, philosophical, historical, political, and ethical dimensions.