Applied Assessments/Measurements

Catalog description

Applied Assessments & Measurement: This course prepares students to plan, implement, and evaluate the results of psychometric and behavioral assessments. It introduces the variety of assessment methods that are commonly used to understand leaders at all levels and the system in which the leader works from historical, normative, and social perspectives. Methods of structured interviews, standardized surveys, 360degree feedback instruments and interviews, and other organizational assessments are introduced and applied. This course covers administration, scoring, and interpretation of commonly used instruments at the individual and team levels with emphasis on debriefing and feedback techniques, with multi-rater assessments as well as personality, behavioral, cognitive and inventories. Issues considered include: test design and construction, validity and reliability, criteria for choosing a test, face-to-face versus online administration, cross-cultural and translation factors, ethics, and legality. Prerequisites: None.