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Edc 361 Course Outline 2023

This document provides information on a course called "Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics in Education" offered at the University of Education, Winneba. The 3 credit course is intended to equip students with skills in educational assessment, evaluation, and interpreting and applying assessment results. Over 12 weeks, topics will include the concepts and purposes of assessment, taxonomies of educational objectives, test construction and administration, descriptive statistics, and validity and reliability. Assessment will consist of continuous assessment worth 40% and an end of semester exam worth 60%. The course is aimed at helping students effectively assess learning outcomes and use results to support further teaching and counseling.

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Edc 361 Course Outline 2023

This document provides information on a course called "Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics in Education" offered at the University of Education, Winneba. The 3 credit course is intended to equip students with skills in educational assessment, evaluation, and interpreting and applying assessment results. Over 12 weeks, topics will include the concepts and purposes of assessment, taxonomies of educational objectives, test construction and administration, descriptive statistics, and validity and reliability. Assessment will consist of continuous assessment worth 40% and an end of semester exam worth 60%. The course is aimed at helping students effectively assess learning outcomes and use results to support further teaching and counseling.

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UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA

FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS

Course Outline and Teaching Schedule – 2nd Semester 2022/2023

COURSE CODE: EDC 361


COURSE TITLE: Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics in Education

LECTURERS: Prof. Samuel Asare Amoah, Dr. Peter Eshun, Dr. Paul Kobina Effrim,
Dr. Frank Quansah, & Mr. Simon Ntumi
CREDITS: 3 hours

Course Description

Introduction to Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics acquaints students with educational


assessment principles, methods and practices necessary for school teachers. The course is
designed to equip students with various ways of effectively and efficiently assessing and
interpreting learning outcomes of students, and use the result for further teaching. Not only
will the teacher use the results for further teaching, but will also be equipped to use the results
to support the guidance and counselling programme in the schools.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: By the end of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Explain the basic concept assessment and its related terms.


2. Differentiate between the various types of assessment in education.
3. Identify the characteristics of a good test.
4. Construct good instrument for data collection
5. Show how to administer a test effectively.
6. Process, analyse, interpret and use assessment results for further teaching.

COURSE CONTENT

WK UNIT TOPICS AND CONTENTS

1 1 Nature, Definition and Explanation of basic concepts in assessment.

 Assessment, Measurement, Test & Evaluation


 Principles and purposes of assessment
 Assessment of learning, Assessment for learning, and
Assessment as learning.
2 2 Educational Goals, Outcomes, and Objectives

 Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.


 Cognitive Domain
 Affective domain
 Psychomotor domain
3 3 Contemporary issues in assessment practices in Ghana
 Assessment Based on Profile Dimension of each subject
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 School-Based Assessment in Ghana
 Computer-Based Assessment
4 4 Characteristics of a good assessment result

 Validity
 Nature of validity
 Categories of validity evidence
 Factors that affect validity of test scores
5 4  Reliability
 Nature of reliability
 True Score Theory
 Standard Error of Measurement (SEM)
 Methods of estimating reliability
 Factors that affect reliability of test scores
Mid-Semester Examinations
6 5 The stages in planning and constructing classroom tests

 Construction
 Objective type test (multiple choice tests, true or false tests,
matching type test, and short-answer tests)

7 5  Easy type test and Computational type test


 Administration
8 5  Scoring
 Interpretation and usage of results.
 Rights and Responsibilities of test takers.
9&10 6 Basic Descriptive Statistics in Education
 Frequency Distribution Tables, Graphs,
 Measures of Central Tendency (both grouped and ungrouped data)
Mean, Mode and Median, and their properties.
 Measures of Variability (both grouped and ungrouped data) Range,
Variance and Standard Deviation, and their properties
11&12 6  Measures of Relative Positions (Percentiles, Percentile Ranks, Z-
Scores, T-Scores)
 Normal distribution and its properties.
End-of-Semester Examination

MODE OF ASSESSMENT: Cont. Assessment - 40%; End of Sem. Exams - 60%

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