Instructors regularly write, administer and grade assessments ultimately to assign a grade for a course.  More importantly, these tests may be used as a measurement for the degree to which a student understands the content.  These classroom assessment efforts are valuable measurements of the progress of students through the program, and efforts to associate measurements between multiple courses in a program are routinely included in programmatic assessment requirements.  Subscoring can also be considered when examining groups of similar items (such as one content area).  The stability of norms using subscoring (or alternatively, item removal) is then an important consideration.  This leads into item level investigation including classic test statistics, item content, format and type.  Current research by ACS Exams studying these aspects of testing with implications for classroom and programmatic assessment as well as the use of comparisons to national representative samples will be presented.

ACS Exams: Making measurements for classroom and programmatic assessment

254th National Meeting (2017)

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