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Foundations of Testing and Assessment

Purpose and Principles of Educational and Professional Testing

Constructs, Learning Objectives, and Test Specifications

Test Formats and Item Writing

Selecting Appropriate Test Formats

Crafting High-Quality Items

Test Administration, Scoring, and Analysis

Administration Procedures and Fairness

Scoring, Psychometrics, and Interpretation

Design, Implementation, and Evaluation in Practice

End-to-End Test Design Project

Knowledge Checks and Surveys

Quiz: Principles and Purposes

Quiz: Blueprints and Objectives

Quiz: Formats and Item Quality

Quiz: Administration and Fairness

Quiz: Scoring and Psychometrics

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Foundations of Test Design

Designing Valid and Reliable Assessments

Defining Evidence for Learning Targets

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Designing Valid, Reliable Assessments: Test Formats and Item Writing is a practical, end-to-end course for educators, instructional designers, L&D professionals, and certification teams who want to build assessments that truly measure what matters. You’ll learn how to translate constructs and learning objectives into rigorous test blueprints, select the right item formats for your evidence needs, and write items that are fair, clear, and free from bias. Beyond item writing, you’ll master administration procedures, scoring models, and essential psychometrics so your decisions are defensible to stakeholders. Through hands-on activities—including a capstone design project—you will plan, pilot, analyze, and refine an assessment using real-world constraints like time, security, and accessibility. By the end, you’ll be able to produce valid score interpretations, set performance standards, and report results with confidence. If you need to elevate quizzes, exams, performance tasks, or certification tests, this course gives you the frameworks, tools, and checklists to do it right—reliably, ethically, and efficiently.

Designing Valid, Reliable Assessments: Test Formats and Item Writing

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            <p>Designing Valid, Reliable Assessments: Test Formats and Item Writing equips educators, instructional designers, and credentialing professionals to create assessments that truly measure what matters. Grounded in principles of validity, reliability, fairness, and practicality, the course clarifies the distinctions among testing, assessment, and evaluation, and connects them to ethical test use and real decision-making—formative and summative. You will learn to define constructs and translate them into measurable learning objectives, then convert those objectives into test specifications and blueprints that balance cognitive demand, content coverage, and logistical constraints such as time, resources, security, and accessibility.</p>

<p>Building on that foundation, the course dives into test formats and item-writing craft. You will match assessment formats—selected-response, constructed-response, performance, and technology-enhanced—to specific objectives; analyze the strengths and limitations of each for scoring, accessibility, and evidence quality; and use rubrics and checklists when performance tasks are appropriate. Hands-on modules guide you in writing high-quality items: clear stems, plausible distractors, avoidance of bias and unintended cues, and calibration of difficulty and cognitive complexity. You will plan standardized administration procedures, apply accommodations fairly, and pilot test forms to detect irregularities. Finally, you will score with answer keys and rubrics, interpret reliability and standard error, gather multiple sources of validity evidence, conduct item analysis (difficulty, discrimination, distractors), set defensible cut scores (e.g., Angoff), and report results to stakeholders. Through quizzes and an end-to-end design project—from blueprinting to score reporting and reflection—you will build a practical portfolio that demonstrates assessment literacy and design rigor.</p>
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