Educational Tests and Measurements

A basic course in the construction of measures of cognitive achievement and ability. Topics include test planning, item writing, test tryout, item analysis, reliability, validity, criterion-referencing, norm-referencing, item banking, test equating, and item bias. Students write items, critique items written by others, construct tests, try out and revise tests, and develop test manuals to document the process of test development and the quality of their tests.