Week 5 Materials

Introduction

Hello!

As you will have heard, Moodle is not available this week, so I have added the materials to this site. There are links to the slides, reading lists, and video resources for Week 5. Hopefully we will be back to normal on Monday!

Topic - Classical Test Theory

Learning Outcomes:

  • Describe the main assumptions of Classical Test Theory
  • Define and interpret standard error of measurement
  • Interpret and communicate 68% confidence intervals

This Week’s Tutor:

Oliver Clark

Reading List

There are sections in this web-book that cover Classical Test Theory (Click here for section on Classical Test Theory).

For more depth, please see Coaly’s textbook, and for even more depth see Furr’s chapter:

Link to Reading List

The Leo Harville paper on classical test theory is particularly useful for this week.

Videos and Slides

Video Lectures

You can access the videos from MMU-tube (Click here for link to MMU-tube playlist), or you can watch them on this site:

Additional Video Resources

Test Batteries

Below is a breakdown of a standardised test battery manual. It is an ability test called the GAT-2.

I have not embedded this for copyright reasons, but you can access the video from MMUtube.

Link to breadking down a test manual

Providing Feedback

We will be using the Standard Error of Measurement in Part 2 of the portfolio. You have already received similar feedback on my Extraversion and Neuroticism activity, but to see how everything that we have covered so far fits togethe I have embedded a video in which I give the late Zigmund Farrow Manfred feedback on a Feline personality questionnaire:

Link to MMUtube

Workshop Playlist

If anyone wants to revisit some of the earlier workshops, I’ve prepared a playlist with all of the recordings so far:

Link to MMUTube Page