ELED-41000 Classroom Assessment and Intervention

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates for the development of tests and performance based assignments that inform instruction of all students.  Candidates will learn to use assessment for instructional purposes by developing biased free tests, assignments that produce authentic data that can be used to enhance instruction, learn about communicating informative feedback to students and developing clear and useful rubrics.  Candidates will learn how to teach students test taking skills and how to interpret the results of standardized tests for parents and other related constituents.  Statistical concepts related to tests such as measures of central tendency, measures of variability, norm and criterion reference tests, validity, reliability, coefficient correlation and different types of tests used in measurement such as t-test will be covered.

Credits

3