EDUC 7710:Principles, Trends, and Issues in Standardized Educational Testing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: EDL 7305 and EDUC 7705
This graduate course for educators focuses on the critical analysis of national and global large-scale educational testing, emphasizing the core principles, trends and issues surrounding the testing and measurement of achievement. This course is designed for master-level students without extensive mathematical training and covers topics such as the evolution of testing in the US and globally, issues surrounding testing of students with disabilities or English language learners, item analysis with statistics, test domains, sampling, population, measurement error, reliability, validity, score inflation, factors influencing scale scores, scaling, test statistics, performance-based statistics, and testing bias. Graduate candidates will explore these topics within the frameworks of common large-scale tests.