Master of Arts in Education and Human Development in the Field of Assessment, Testing, and Measurement in Education
Develop the expertise to analyze fifth graders in a school district, all workers at a company, everyone taking a graduate entrance exam, or a sampling of patients in a counseling lab. Assessment, testing, and measurement (ATM) in education combines statistical analysis, testing theory, the study of human behavior, educational measurement, and evaluation into the science of measuring educational/behavioral factors such as learning, preference, aptitude, and personality. Specialists in this field (psychometricians) design tests that collect empirical data and quantify the personal characteristics of individuals, comparing those results within or across populations.
EDUC 8175. Item Response Theory. 3 Credits.
Conceptual, mathematical, and applied issues in item response theory. Dichotomous models, item response theory software used for estimation and model fit, test construction, differential item functioning, and item response theory equating. Prerequisites: EDUC 8170.