Methodology of Measurеment in Psychology and Education

2023/2024

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент образовательных программ

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1 модуль

Преподаватель

Антипкина Инна Вениаминовна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course provides students with the basic concepts of psychological and educational measurement: theories of measurement, test and item development, reliability and validity. The course starts with a historical review of the development of measurement in psychology and shows how the basic concepts changed over time. The most important issues of these concepts are discussed. The students will learn the main steps they need to go through in order to design a test or questionnaire and to ensure their psychometric quality. The guidance we use is aligned with the latest editions of the Educational measurement and the Standards of psychological measurement by APA and NCME. During the course the students will apply their theoretical knowledge to the development of their own questionnaire. The students will learn what such item chatecteristics as difficulty and discrimination are, how to calculate them, and how to deal with errors of measurement. We will dedicate a significant amount of time to the interpretation of test scores. The social consequences of standardized testing will also be discussed. The students have to be ready for extensive reading of texts on general methodological issues of measurement in social science as well as for group work and discussion.