ED 4100 - Educational Assessments

Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to help students understand the importance of valid and reliable classroom assessments to support student learning in middle and secondary education. It examines the interplay between classroom assessments and larger scale assessments, and how to gather and make sense of classroom assessment data. Assessment is defined as the process of obtaining information that is used to make educational decisions about students, to give feedback to the student about his or her progress, strengths, and weaknesses, to judge instructional effectiveness and curricular adequacy, and to inform policy. The course will have students examine construction, selection, administration, interpretation, and utilization of evaluation techniques and instruments, including statistical interpretations. There will be an emphasis on analysis of standardized tests applicable to various content areas, as well as the construction and utilization of qualitative assessment techniques.

This course is connected to Level III Field experience.

Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education

General Education - Competencies:

GCAM: Applied Methodologies
GCQA: Quantitative Application