PEDA4042-1 : Evaluation questions

Study Programmes 2015-2016

PEDA4042-1

Evaluation questions

Duration :

15h Th

Number of credits :

Master in education (120 ECTS)		2

Lecturer :

Christian Monseur

Coordinator :

N...

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The course introduces the different types of students assessement and discusses the measurement issue in educational sciences. It consists of:

1. The different types of students assessment and the scoring biases
2. An introduction devoted to (i) the definition of the measurement concept , by comparison with the concept of evaluation and (ii) the theoritical and practical problems of the measure in human sciences, as well as the different steps of the measurement process;
3. The developement of the measurement framework ;
4. The writting of the questions;
5. Some statistical tools for describing the psychometric properties of a test and of its questions.

Learning outcomes of the course :

The course aims at :
1. Familiarizing students with the fundamental concepts of evaluation and psychometrics ;
2. Making students sensitive to the measurement problems encoutered in educational sciences ;
3. Describing the rules and procedures for the elaboration of a measurement instrument ;
4. Enabling students to compute and interpret some psychometric indices from the Classical Test Theory

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Seminars, individual and collective exercies and lab.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face to Face