This course provides opportunities to learn the core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and practices of educational and psychological measurement. Specifically, the course will cover reliability, validity, item analysis, score interpretation, and modern measurement theories. Special attention will be given to the construction, interpretation, use, accessibility, and evaluation of assessments regarding achievement, aptitude, interests, attitudes, social and emotional learning, and personality. Following this course, you will be able to:
Assist in the development of measures of educational and psychological constructs- Interpret test and assessment scores from a variety of sources
- Develop and review test items, and conduct item analysis
- Design and conduct validity (and reliability) studies
- Evaluate measures of educational and psychological constructs
- Apply principles of measurement for responsible and fair test use
NOTE: This course is no longer being taught by Dr. Rodriguez. Search the umn.edu course catalog or schedule builder for future offerings with other instructors. The design of the course and course content essentially remain the same.