100 pts
Q1-Q8 are 10 pts each. Q9-10 are 6 pts each. Q11 is 8 points.
Q1 Please explain what content validity is. Why is it important for a teacher to know if a test has content validity?
Q2 Please briefly name the three types of reliability. Why is it important for a teacher to know if a test has these three types of reliability?
Q3 I would like you to find a multiple choice test item online that you feel is biased in some manner. (You can certainly use test items that are posted by the Ohio Department of Education, but you are free to use any source that you wish). Please provide me with the test item (you can add a snip to your Word Document or you can hand type in the test item). Then explain to me why you think the item is biased. Also explain to me how the item could be edited so that the item is not biased.
Q4 Many USA states have some form of high stakes assessment to classify students (e.g Well Above Proficient, Proficient, Below Proficient, Well Below Proficient). What are the difficulties in comparing students from three different states?
Q5 Choose a subject area. Then use Standards for that subject area, and develop a test blueprint for an end of year test. Please provide me with the blueprint you have developed, please provide me with the citation for the standards you have used, and please provide me with at least a half page explanation as to why you developed your blueprint as you did.
Q6 Please explain why it is important for teachers to be aware of the concept of Standard Error of Measurement (SEM).
Q7 Each chapter of the Popham book includes a section entitled But what does this have to do with teaching. I would like you to choose one of the chapters and critique the presented But what does this have to do with teaching. So you will pick one chapter, find the section named But what does tis have to do with teaching, and you will provide me with a commentary of your reaction as to what is presented. What is good, what is unclear, what might need to be added?
Q8 Why is a meterstick (a yard stick) an example of a good measurement device?
6 pts Q9 What were the past errors that were made in the analysis of test data (the data from a multiple choice test where one can correctly answer an item or not correctly answer an item)? These are the errors that Rasch techniques allows one to confront.
6 pts Q10 What were the past errors that were made in the analysis of survey data (the data from a survey where one can answer a survey item by selecting Strongly Agree (4), Agree (3), Disagree (2) and Strongly Disagree (1))? These are the errors that Rasch techniques allows one to confront.
8 pts Q11) I would like you to write an end of chapter activity for Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5. So if you were teaching a course using our Popham book, each of these activities would be ones that students could attempt in order to better understand some part of chapter.
Provide me with the activity and the chapter number. You can think of the activity as a homework assignment that you would give your students to help them better understand some one part of a chapter.
You will provide me with 4 activities, one for chapter 2, one for chapter 3, one for chapter 4 and one for chapter 5.
