Course Description
Nature and function of assessing student learning in programs of workforce education.
Athena Title
STU LRN WORKFRC ED
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EOCS 7020
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year. Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Learners will: 1. Examine the role of measurement and evaluation in the instructional process in workforce education. 2. Examine multicultural-gender/ethnic issues as they relate to assessment in workforce education. 3. Identify and state desired learning outcomes and performance objectives in all three major learning domains as the basis for assessment. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of controlling the concepts of validity, reliability, and other measurement qualities in the selection, construction, utilization, and interpretation of tests and other assessment strategies. 5. Develop test item banks and a system for storing, updating, and retrieving these items. 6. Construct, administer, and score classroom tests that measure a variety of intended learning outcomes from simple to complex. 7. Construct, administer, and score performance tests. 8. Construct and implement non-test, authentic assessment strategies. 9. Select published tests that are most appropriate for a particular situation. 10. Interpret test scores (with full awareness of their meaning and the ever-present errors of measurement). 11. Develop a system for grading and reporting learner progress and growth. 12. Describe brain-based learning and the latest research on learning theory and implicating for improving assessment practices. 13. Explore the Internet as an assessment tool. 14. Become actively involved as a student in your own assessment. 15. Demonstrate effective feedback strategies.
Topical Outline
The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary. 1. Course overview, expectations, assignments, timelines 2. Introductory Course Content 3. Cognitive Test Development 4. Performance assessment 5. Critical factors in assessment 6. Alternative assessment tools 7. Grading and Reporting
Syllabus
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