Psychometrics 101: Item Total Correlation
Posted by Greg Pope I’ll be talking about a subject dear to my heart — psychometrics — at the Questionmark Users Conference April 5 -8. Here’s a sneak preview on one of my topics: item total...
View ArticlePsychometrics 101: Sample size and question difficulty (p-values)
Posted by Greg Pope With just a week to go before the Questionmark Users Conference, here’s a little taste of the presentation I will be doing on psychometrics. I will also be running a session on...
View ArticlePsychometrics 101: How do I know if my assessment is reliable? (Part 1)
Posted by Greg Pope At last week’s Questionmark Users Conference I presented a session on item and test analysis, and part of that session dealt with test score reliability. “Reliability” is used in...
View ArticlePsychometrics 101: How do I know if an assessment is reliable? (Part 2)
Posted by Greg Pope In my last post I offered some general information about assessment reliability. Below are some additional specific things to consider. What factors / test characteristics generally...
View ArticleUnderstanding Assessment Validity and Reliability
Posted by Julie Chazyn Assessments are not all created equal…Those that are both reliable and valid are the superior ones that support learning and measure knowledge most effectively. But how can...
View Article12 Tips for Writing Good Test Questions
Posted by Joan Phaup Writing effective questions takes time and practice. Whether your goal is to measure knowledge and skills, survey opinions and attitudes or enhance a learning experience, poorly...
View ArticleDo You Know How to Write Good Test Questions?
Posted by Howard Eisenberg I had a typical education. I took lots of tests. Knowing what I know now about good testing practice, I wonder how many of those tests really provided an accurate measure...
View ArticlePodcast: Global Skills-Based Certification
Posted by Joan Phaup I chatted with Adam Zaller from Services University of NCR during the Questionmark 2009 Users Conference. Adam told me about the university’s global skills-based certification...
View ArticleEmbedding Questionmark Assessments in Google Wave
Embed a Questionmark Perception assessment, survey or quiz inside your Google Wave profile. To see how this would look, see a snapshot of an assessment embedded into Google Wave. Check out this How-to...
View ArticleFinal Planning Considerations – Test Design and Delivery Part 3
Posted By Doug Peterson In Part 2 of this series, we looked at how to determine how many items you needed to write for each content area covered by your assessment. In this installment, we’ll take a...
View ArticleContent protection and secure delivery: Test Design and Delivery Part 9
Posted By Doug Peterson Writing good items and putting together valid and reliable assessments can take a lot of time and cost a lot of money. Part of an assessment’s reliability and validity is based...
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