ORL+5524+Instrument+Design+and+Validation-Seminar

Next Offered
Fall 2013

Professor
Madhabi Chatterji (TC)

Syllabus
Note: Syllabus is subject to change at the professor's discretion.

Course description
The purpose of this course is to provide students with seminar/workshop experiences in the design and validation of instruments to measure educational, psychological, health or other social constructs. The type of instrument can vary according to student needs. Instruments may be designed to serve classroom, organizational, clinical or research purposes. In past years, participants have designed survey or questionnaire-based scales, attitude scales or inventories, structured behavior or performance assessments, or tests of achievement/ability. Participants will be exposed to a “process model” for designing quantitative measuring instruments, and for improving tools and measures the through formal validation techniques. Specifically, the course emphasizes skills in construct and domain specification (identifying observable indicators of a construct and creating a blueprint for the design of a tool); item/task design, including developing scoring protocols/ rubrics, and scaling; conducting formal content validation of tools; conducting field tests with item analysis, and appropriate validity and reliability analyses; and development of long-term validation research agendas.

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