Duration
20h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course introduces the different types of students assessement and discusses the measurement issue in educational sciences. It consists of:
1. The different types of students assessment and the scoring biases
2. An introduction devoted to (i) the definition of the measurement concept , by comparison with the concept of evaluation and (ii) the theoritical and practical problems of the measure in human sciences, as well as the different steps of the measurement process;
3. The developement of the measurement framework ;
4. The writting of the questions;
5. Some statistical tools for describing the psychometric properties of a test and of its questions.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course aims at :
1. Familiarizing students with the fundamental concepts of evaluation and psychometrics ;
2. Making students sensitive to the measurement problems encoutered in educational sciences ;
3. Describing the rules and procedures for the elaboration of a measurement instrument ;
4. Enabling students to compute and interpret some psychometric indices from the Classical Test Theory
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Seminars, individual and collective exercies and lab.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
Face to Face
Recommended or required readings
The course notes and the slides are available on myulg.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
Written examination
Work placement(s)
None
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Students are not allowed to record the lecture
Contacts
Christian Monseur
cmonseur@ulg.ac.be
++ 32 4 366 20 95