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Welcome to Educational Assessment and Evaluation, a doctorate level course in the curriculum for the Degree, Doctor in Education. I am pleased to instruct you in this course.
This is an upper level course that prepares you to work in the field of K-12 Educational Administration. In this course you will study the significance of assessment and evaluation to educational leaders.
I know you will enjoy this course. Please learn as much as you can as you progress through it, as it does lay down a solid foundation for the rest of the curriculum. It is my pleasure to have you in the course.
This is an (5) five-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your textbook has arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. Extensions of time are permitted if needed with my and/or departmental approval. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded five (5) semester hours of credit.
There is (1) required textbook for this course.
Book 1:”Assessment for Educational Leaders”, by W. James Popham. Prentice Hall Publishers. ISBN: 0-205-42400-7.
This book may be found in your local bookstore. Your local bookstore most often will order it as a special order for you if it is not in stock. Or, you may purchase this book online from:
There is a cumulative final exam required for this course covering the entire textbook. The final exam must be taken by the end of the tenth week in the course. The exam is programmed and is located in the classroom for this course. The examination is "open book" objective type. You will have one (1) day to complete your exam, once you access it from the classroom. To access the exam, you must send me an email and request to have access to the exam. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. I will then program your access in. You will receive an email back from me telling you that you are now authorized to go ahead and to access your exam. To access, you will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are taking. You will need your User ID and PASS WORD to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once you access the exam, you have twenty-four hours to submit your answers. The program provides me the exact date and time that you accessed the exam. The program also notifies me of the exact date and time that you submitted your answers. Thus, the program is timing you. When you are ready, go back into the classroom and click in your responses and then click submit. Shortly, you will receive the exam in your email box with your computed score. You will also know what questions, if any, that you missed, and what the correct answer is. I also receive a copy of your exam and your score.
The grading scale for this course is as follows:
90-100% = A
80-89% = B
70-79% = C
Below 70% = Fail
You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.
There is a paper required for this course. You will write a paper on one of the issues discussed in the textbook. The requirements for the paper are as follows:
1). Cover page, with your name, course number and title, and title of paper.
2). A minimum of 10 pages.
3). 1-inch margins.
4). Double-spaced.
5). APA style format.
Breyer State University Approved Guidelines for Written Papers
I, Catherine Moran, Ph.D., currently teach undergraduate and graduate courses at Breyer State University and Canyon College. I hold Ph.D. in Education and a Master’s degree in Education from Breyer State University. A Bachelor of Science from Kent State University with a major in Chemistry and Biology and Speech. I have worked in several hospitals as a Med. Tech. I lecture at conferences on “Assessing and Teaching Children with Learning Disabilities”.
I am the Registrar of Breyer State University.
Upon completion of this course, you will:
- Have an understanding of the importance of assessment and evaluation.
- Have an understanding of what to measure and how to interpret the results.
- Have an understanding of the validity of assessment-based interpretations.
- Have an understanding of the reliability of assessment devices.
- Discuss and understand the absence of bias in testing.
- Understand the techniques used make relative test-score interpretations.
- Discuss and understand the selected-response items used in assessments.
- Define the use of constructed-response items.
- Understand the portfolio assessment.
- Define empirical and judgmental techniques.
- Understand how to administer educational tests and then interpret and use the results.
- Understand the accountability of the tests used.
- Have an understanding of creating educational assessments.
- Have an understanding of using educational tests.
A brief abstract of content:
- Assessments.
- Significance of assessments.
- Interpreting assessments.
- What to measure in assessments.
- Evaluating educational assessments.
- Test preparation.
- Validity of assessment-based interpretations.
- Content-related evidence of validity
- Criterion-related evidence of validity.
- Construct-related evidence of validity.
- Reliability of assessment devices.
- Stability reliability.
- Internal consistency reliability.
- Absence of bias.
- Comparative data.
- Creating educational assessments.
- Performance and portfolio assessments.
- Empirical and judgmental techniques.
- Creating affective measures.
- Administering educational tests and using the results.
- Effective test directions.
- Scoring the tests.
- Test security.
If you have any
questions regarding this program, you may address them to admassistant@breyerstate.com.
An administrative faculty member will respond to all questions.
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