Digital Workbook on Educational Assessment Design and Evaluation: Creating and Evaluating Effective Educational Assessments


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Digital Workbook on Educational Assessment Design and Evaluation: Creating and Evaluating Effective Educational Assessments

This professional development assessment literacy resource is divided into chapters and is intended to help educators ensure that the assessments they use provide meaningful information about what students know and can do.

Chapter 1: Purposes and Uses of Assessment Scores, Validity, Validity Questions (Adobe Connect Digital WorkbookPPTScriptMP3)

  • Chapter 1.1 Assessment Purposes and Uses
  • Chapter 1.2 Validity as the Key Principle of Assessment Quality
  • Chapter 1.3 Four Validity Questions to Guide Assessment Development and Evaluation
  • Chapter 1.4 Summary and Next Steps

Chapter 2: Construct Coherence (Adobe Connect Digital WorkbookPPTScriptMP3)

  • Chapter 2.1 Review of Key Concepts from Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2.2 The Concept of Construct Coherence
  • Chapter 2.3 Validity Questions Related to Construct Coherence

Chapter 3: Comparability (Adobe Connect Digital WorkbookPPTScriptMP3)

  • Chapter 3.1 Review of Key Concepts from Chapters 1 and 2
  • Chapter 3.2 What is Comparability and Why is it Important?
  • Chapter 3.3 What is Reliability/Precision and Why is it Important?
  • Chapter 3.4 Validity Questions Related to Comparability and Reliability/Precision

Chapter 4: Fairness and Accessibility (Adobe Connect Digital WorkbookPPTScriptMP3

  • Chapter 4.1 Review of Key Concepts from Chapters 1, 2, and 3
  • Chapter 4.2 What is Fairness and Accessibility and Why is it Important?
  • Chapter 4.3 Validity Questions Related to Fairness and Accessibility

Chapter 5: Consequences Associated with Testing (Adobe Connect Digital WorkbookPPTScriptMP3)

  • Chapter 5.1 Review of Key Concepts from Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
  • Chapter 5.2 Consequences Associated with Testing
  • Chapter 5.3 Validity Questions Related to Consequences
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