PEDA4042-1

Duration

20h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Pascal Detroz, Christian Monseur

Coordinator

Christian Monseur

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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 learning unit

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, hybrid learning)

Face to Face

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

- Remote

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person

Additional information:

Written examination

Work placement(s)