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The course will cover classical and contemporary models and methods of psychometrics as well as applied issues of testing and assessment in the school settings. Models and methods include reliability and validity within the classical test theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). Other testing issues such as equating and factor analysis and their applications will be discussed, together with applied issues such as measurement in instruction, construction of teacher-made tests or assessments, portfolio and performance assessment, and standard setting.
This book introduces educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades, presenting an applied approach to conducting testing and measurement in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences with numerous examples. It introduces psychometric theory using a latent variable modeling (LVM) framework and emphasizes interval estimation throughout. This book features the extensive and consistent use of the comprehensive framework of latent variable modeling, and the concern with interval estimation throughout, in addition to point estimation of parameters of main interest and model fit evaluation.
