EPSY 590 ASA

Course Description

• This sixteen-week course explores current issues and trends using alternative methods of student assessment. We will focus on the measurement and assessment process, measuring complex achievement, creating student portfolios and a variety of assessment procedures teachers can use as students engage in their work. During this course, we will read, reflect and discuss these topics; create rubrics and other assessment measures; and test out these new assessments and procedures in the classroom.

Syllabus

Major Topics covered in the course:

• Issues and Trends in Educational Testing and Student Assessment
• Types of Assessment Measures
• The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture
• Validity & Reliability
• Assessment Planning
• Essays and Other Written Forms of Assessments
• Performance-Based and Project-Based Assessments
• Portfolios ; Other assessment procedures
• Interpreting Test Scores and Norms
• Assessing Diverse Learners; Assessing Group Work
• Using Assessment Software

Instructor

Katherine Ryan Associate Professor Educational Psychology 260B Education Building 1310 S. 6th St. MC 708 Email: k-ryan6@illinois.edu

TA: Jinhee Choo jchoo@illinois.edu

Required Textbook

• Linn and Miller (2005). Measurement and Assessment in Teaching (9th edition) Upple Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.