Course Description
Multicultural Issues covers how to recognize, understand, and respect the complexity, key concepts, theoretical perspectives, and empirical findings of sociocultural and international diversity.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, students will be able to
- Understand how tests are developed.
- Describe and interpret psychometric properties of a test.
- Construct a content-valid knowledge-based test and personality test.
Week 1
Lecture: Introduction to Measurement and Uses of Testing
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Define measurement
- Explain why measurement is important
- Identify uses of testing
Week 2
Lecture: Test Ethics and Test Administration
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Discuss the relationship between examiner and examinee
- Explain rights and responsibilities of test taker
- Identify test administration techniques
- Understand testing ethics
- Identify ethical issues in testing
Week 3
Lecture: Reliability
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Define reliability
- Understand issues with measurement error
- Describe different ways to assess reliability
- Interpret reliability coefficients
Week 4
Lecture: Validity
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Define Validity
- Understand relationship between reliability and validity
- Discuss categories of validity evidence
- Describe methods of establishing evidence of validity
Week 5
Lecture: Intelligence Testing
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Discuss issues with defining intelligence
- Explain different theories of intelligence
- Identify different types of intelligence tests
Week 6
Lecture: Personality Testing
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Define personality
- Describe the Big Five personality traits
- Understand ways of measuring personality
- Discuss issues in personality testing
Week 7
Lecture: Test Construction
Lecture: Self-Report Measure Construction
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Understand how reliability and validity relate to test development
- Recognize different item formats
- Summarize item writing guidelines
- Sequence steps for developing content valid tests
- Construct a knowledge-based test
- Construct a personality test
Week 8
Lecture: Testing and the Law
Outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to
- Explain differences between test bias and fairness
- Discuss EEOC guidelines and explain their importance
- Describe ways of assessing adverse impact
The course description, objectives and learning outcomes are subject to change without notice based on enhancements made to the course. March 2012
