Study Programmes 2015-2016
| PSYC0019-1 | |||||||||||
| introduction to psychometrics | |||||||||||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | |||||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Christian Monseur | |||||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | |||||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester | |||||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | |||||||||||
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Course contents :
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| The course introduces the theories and methods of measurement in psychological and educational sciences. It consists of:
1. 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; 2. The developement of the measurement framework ; 3. The writting of the questions; 4. The preparation of the measurement instrument and the conception of complex test designs; 5. The Classical Test Theory 6. The Item Response Theory models and in particular the one parameter logistic model 7. The validity of the measure. The cours will start by a presentation of the different statistical notions frequently used in the course. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The course aims at :
1. Familiarizing students with the fundamental concepts of psychometrics ; 2. Making students sensitive to the measurement problems encoutered in human sciences ; 3. Describing the rules and procedures for the elaboration of a measurement instrument ; 4. Enabling students to compute and interpret several psychometric indices from the Classical Test Theory 5. Initiating students to Item Response Theory models |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| None | |||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Talk and exercises | |||||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face to Face | |||||||||||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| The course notes and the slides are available on myulg. | |||||||||||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The assessement consists of 40 True-False questions and 5 exercises. The True-False section represents 80% of the score. | |||||||||||
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Work placement(s) :
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| None | |||||||||||
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Organizational remarks :
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| None | |||||||||||
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Contacts :
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| Christian Monseur
cmonseur@ulg.ac.be(Monseurcmonseur@ulg.ac.be ) ++ 32 4 366 20 95 |
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