EDUC 738

Student Learning Objectives

​Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

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KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

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• Analyze how educational institutions currently bring together curriculum, instructional practices and assessments to meet accountability expectations.

• Define terms such as assessment, evaluation and measurement

• Compare classical and modern test theories.

• Define validity and reliability.

• Compute and interpret reliability coefficients, item difficulty, item discrimination, and standard error of measurement.

• Distinguish between formative and summative assessments.

• Establish standard setting procedures that could be used within an educational system.

• Describe state and federal laws that enable ELs and students with disabilities to be assessed in meaningful ways.

• Use the Rasch simple logistic model to examine assessment data in order to evaluate the item and test characteristics.

• Identify factors that can produce biased assessment results.

• Compare models of program evaluation.

• Plan and design an evaluation of an educational program or curriculum.
   

DISPOSITIONS:

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• Demonstrate sensitivity to diversity in the discussion of problems and issues related to assessment and evaluation in education.

• Demonstrate an ethic of caring in the discussion of problems and issues related to assessment in education.

• Make recommendations for improving formative assessment at an institution of learning.

• Apply a framework for ethical decision making in issues pertaining to assessment in educational settings.

• Establish specific ethical criteria for the evaluation of assessments and the procedures that guide the implementation of the state adopted academic standards (e.g., Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards).

• Demonstrate a commitment to the ethical evaluation of educational and other types of programs.

• Demonstrate a commitment to apply the standards developed by the Joint Committee on Standards of Educational Evaluation

 

PERFORMANCE: Using knowledge of principles of research,

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• Critically evaluate claims for raising student achievement.

• Critically evaluate existing instructional and intervention programs and practices Develop a proposal to evaluate an educational program, materials and or intervention strategies aimed at improving student performance.

• Synthesize performance data, curriculum theory, learning research, and evaluate curriculum programs.

• Use Rasch measurement theory and software to analyze a set of test data and critically examine the findings in light of existing local practices for testing students.