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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
teaching training - diploma
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Tchia Snapiri
Coordinator Office Hours:
monday 11:00-12:00 2nd sem.
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Snapiri Tchia
Mr.
Course/Module description:
The course deals with evaluation instruments that are used by teachers. It includes instructions to create reliable and valid instruments and to score them. Various instruments, based on different approaches, are presented.
Course/Module aims:
To discuss evaluation and measurement of classroom learning , to be acquainted with different approaches to the subject, to learn the requirments of reliability and validity of evaluation instruments, to create various types of instruments and to summarize their results
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To distinguish between evaluation and measurement, to describe the characteristics of traditional and alternative evaluation, to classify existing evaluation instruments and to examine their validity and reliability, to build various types of evaluation instruments according to the criteria taught in class, to execute basic statistical computations and item analysis, to judge whether instruments are suitable for their purposes
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lecture
Course/Module Content:
Types of evaluation, evaluation and measurement of classroom learning , traditional and alternative evaluation, taxonomy of educational objectives, reliability and validity, examples of various instruments e.g. multiple choice tests, completion tests, short and long answer tests, , essays, performance tasks, portfolios, cooperative tasks, journal, etc., discussion of advantages and limitations of each instrument, rubrics, scoring, basic statistical analyses, item analysis, critrerion-related and norm-related tests
Required Reading:
Gronlund, N. E. & Linn, R. L. (1990). Measurement and evaluation in teaching. New York: Macmillan.
-chapters from the book http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/RevisedBlooms1.html
Additional Reading Material:
Barton, J. & Collins, A. (Eds.) (1997). Portfolio assessment: A handbook for educators. New York: Dale Seymour.
Black, T. R. (1999). Doing quantitative research in the social sciences. Ch.10: Measuring Achievement. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Bloom, B. S., Engelhart, M.D., Furst, E. G., Hill, W.H. & Krathwohl, D.R.( 1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives. Handbook1: Cognitive domain. New York: Longmans.
Howell, David C.(2008). Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences. Belmont, Ca: Thomson/Wadsworth.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
There might be changes due to the progress of learning.
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