Several of the assignments in this course ask you to analyze an assessment of your choice in terms of the concepts in the class discussions and readings. This assignment is a description of your assessment: how it is used, what it looks like, whether you have personal experience or interest in it, etc.  The subsequent topics are the psychological perspective of your assessment, task scoring, statistical model, and task design rationale.   In each case we will have had the opportunity to discuss the concepts in class. 

An assessment you are already familiar with is probably the best choice, but one you want to learn about would work too.  You can switch examples along the way if your initial choice is not working for some reason—talk with me if you see this happening.  You may work in pairs or groups if you like, on a shared example.  However, each student in a group must write his or her own papers.

The term paper will discuss your class example in greater detail, addressing each of the topics we have discussed: Student-, evidence-, and task-models; psychological perspective; statistical model; task-level scoring; and delivery cycle. 

A satisfactory assignment will be 1-3 pages long. You may include samples of the items or materials that accompany the test.