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Course Plan and Assignment
Course Code/Title:
ESEM5153: Assessment in
Education
Telephone:
Office: 03-7627 7201
HS: 012-6139786
Email:
abdullah_mohdnoor@unitar.my
Semester/Year:
May 2014
Date Amended:
14/5/2014
Topic
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Lecture
Tutorial
Educational Assessment
Exercises 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Domains of Learning Outcomes and Test Plan
Exercises 2.1, 2.2
Basic Statistics in Assessment:
Exercises 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Reliability and Validity
Exercises 4.1, 4.2
Objective Tests and Items Writing
Exercises 5.1, 5.2
Subjective Tests and Items Writing
Exercises 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Item Analysis
Exercises 7.1, 7.2
Grading and Reporting
Exercises 8.1, 8.2
Interpretations of Test Scores
Exercises 9.1, 9.2
Alternative Assessments, Ethical Issues, and Legal
Exercises 10.1,10.2
Implications
COURSE ASSESSMENT
Students will be assessed based on the following course assessments and marks distribution:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Participation in Class
Exercises
Assignment
Final Examination
5%
25%
30%
40%
100%
COURSE/ATTENDANCE POLICY
Students are required to abide by the Universitys Academic Regulations pertaining to all matters
during their course of study. Students are advised to take note that class attendance is very
important. Students are required to participate actively in class discussion, exercises, assignment
presentations and other class activities. Eligibility to sit for the final examination of the course is
based on your attendance performance of the face to face classes. Students on full-time-learning
mode must meet 70% of attendance requirement, while those on distance-learning mode must
meet 50% of the attendance requirement to be able to sit for the Final Examination of the course.
COURSE REFERENCE(S)
Thorndike, Robert & Thorndike-Christ, Tracy (2009). Measurement and Evaluation in Psychology
and Educational (8th edition). New York: Prentice Hall, Inc.
1
COURSE ASSIGNMENT
You are to choose ONE (1) topic from a particular subject (i.e. Mathematics, English, etc.) and
assess students achievement of learning outcomes for the topic. The steps are as follows:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
Notes: (a) You may administer the test to at least 20 students (more is better).
(b) You may do the assignment in group of maximum three (3) students.
FLOWCHART FOR ASSIGNMENT
Select Topic
Write 3 Learning Outcomes
Prepare Test Specification
Table
Develop Test Questions
Administer Test, Mark
Answers & Add Marks
Do Item Analysis
Write Explanations and
Suggestions
Write Assessment Report
Include 1 Students
Answer Paper
FORMAT OF REPORT
(1) Topic: ________________________________________________________________
(2) Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this topic, students will be able to:
(a) ___________________________________________________________________
(b) ___________________________________________________________________
(c) ___________________________________________________________________
(3) Test Specification Table:
Learning Outcome
Learning Outcome (a)
Learning Outcome (b)
Learning Outcome (c)
Learning Outcome (a), (b) or (c)
Total Marks
C1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
C..
P1
P..
A1
A..
Total
Marks
2
1
1
2
2
4
10
10
20
10
40
Distracter Index
Comments
A*
8
12
2
22
Options
B
C
1
3
4
8
1
3
2
6
0
2
2
4
Difficulty
Index
P = C
T
= 22
40
= 0.55 (55%)
Discrimination
Index
D = CU CL
(1/2)TUL
=82
(1/2)(10+10)
= 6 = 0.60
0.20 0.10 0.15
10
Option B is a better
The item is moderately The item has moderate
distracter
difficult.
discrimination.
(a)
(b)
___________________________________________________________________
(c)
(d)
Rubric
Quality
Superior
Standard Answer
Mark
4
Aboveaverage
Average
3
2
Belowaverage
Inferior
1
0