Assessment in Education.

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide candidates the foundation in assessment measures used in the K-12 classrooms that aid education decision-making. Fundamental assessment and evaluation topics include validity, reliability, item construction, test interpretation, norm-referenced, criterion-referenced and alternative methods of assessment. HPE Majors/Minors will substitute HPE 376 for this course. Pre-requisite: Level I Admission to Teacher Education, MATH general education requirements for Teacher Education major. Co-requisite: EDUC 500 . Because this is an upper division course, expectations for student performance is at an advanced level. Evaluation of course requirements is more rigorous than at the lower division section of this course.