Educational Testing and Assessment (EDU0912)

Week 1 - Classroom decision making and using assessment Week 2 - Describing the goals and learning targets of instruction; Taxonomies for describing learning – Bloom’s Taxonomy and SOLO Taxonomy Week 3 - Validity and Reliability of assessment results Week 4 - Planning for Integrating Assessment and Instruction Week 5 - Diagnostic and Formative Assessment Topic 6 - Formative Assessment Tools Week 7 - Alternative assessment methods: Self- and peer-assessment Week 8 - Objective Assessment methods: Completion, Short-Answer, True-False, Multiple-Choice and Matching items Week 9 - Assessment methods: Setting and grading Essays, Reports, Projects Week 11 - Alternative assessment methods: Performance and Portfolio assessments. Rubrics – Holistic and Analytic Week 10 - Assessing higher-order skills: Problem solving and critical thinking. Week 12 - Preparing students to be assessed and using students’ results to improve assessment Week 13 - Grading and reporting student progress Week 14 - Large-scale and high-stakes assessment