EDMS 738: Foundations of Educational Assessment

COURSE OUTLINE

Fall 2005

Robert J. Mislevy

 

Class/Date

Topic

Readings

Assignment

 

#1

9/12

Introductions & Overview

 

Mislevy, Almond, & Lukas (2004)

1 paragraph description of yourself

#2

9/19

The ECD framework I

Mislevy (1994), pp. 1-13; OSEA, pp. 1-18, pp. 50-56

 

#3

9/26

The ECD framework II 

Mislevy, Wilson, Ercikan, & Chudowsky (2003), pp. 1-23

short paper: Description of class examples

#4

10/3

Psychology & Assessment I

National Research Council (2001); Mislevy (2003)

ECD question set

#5

10/10

Psychology & Assessment II

 

Baxter, Elder, & Glaser (1996); Mislevy, Steinberg, Almond, Haertel, & Penuel (2000)

 

#6

10/17

Evidence Identification

Messick (1994); Clauser et al. (1997)

 short paper: Psychological perspective on class examples

#7

10/24

Measurement models I

Guest speaker: Roy Levy, UM

 

Mislevy (1994), pp. 13-54

Mislevy, Wilson, Ercikan, & Chudowsky (2003), pp. 24-50 

 

#8

10/31

Design Patterns

Guest speaker: Michelle Riconscente, UM

 

OSEA (2003), pp. 23-55.

#9

11/07

Introduction to PADI

Guest speaker: Geneva Haertel, SRI International

 

 short paper: Evidence identification for class examples

#10

11/14

No class meeting

 

 

#11

11/21

 Theory-based task design I

Hively, Patterson, & Page (1968); Embretson (1998)

 

#12

11/28

Theory-based task design II

 

Mislevy, Steinberg, Breyer, Almond, & Johnson (2002)

 

#13

12/05

Theory-based task design III

Mislevy, Steinberg, & Almond (2002).  Design and analysis in task-based language assessment.

short paper: Rationale for task design in class examples

#14

12/12

General discussion /

Questions on final projects

 

Outline for term paper

12/19

Finals week – no class

 

Term Paper Due 12/19

 

Notes:

Page numbers above refer to the online available versions of the articles.  These generally differ from the published versions.

OSEA: Mislevy, R.J., Steinberg, L.S., & Almond, R.A. (2003).  On the structure of educational assessments.

CTA:      Mislevy, R.J., Steinberg, L.S., Breyer, F.J., Almond, R.G., & Johnson, L. (1999).  A cognitive task analysis, with implications for designing a simulation-based assessment system. 

E&I:        Mislevy, R.J. (1994).  Evidence and inference in educational assessment.  Psychometrika, 59, 439-483. Online version available as CSE Technical Report 414.  Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles:  The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Student Testing (CRESST), Center for Studies in Education, UCLA.