Educational Tests and Measurements

Education programs in the 21st Century continue to evolve with respect to the complex uses of tests and measurements to establish baseline data on student achievement, ability, performances, and behaviors. Professional educators and administrators are increasingly tasked with creating, administering, analyzing, interpreting, and responding to these tests and their associated data. This course will provide an overview of relevant terminology and concepts of testing and measurement, and guide students in creating a variety of items for typical tests used in classroom settings. The course will address item analysis procedures, item wording, testing strategies, introductory language for tests and test items, and strategies for using test results to create interventional instructional methods with students. Finally, students will briefly review a selection of contemporary commercial tests commonly used in Ohio schools to identify strategies for incorporating results of testing to provide educational benefits to the students.