Bayburt University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
ANT407	Quantification and Consideration	Compulsory	4	7	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

Being informed about the measurement instruments used in education and psychology, improving- adapting these tools, applying and interpreting the results.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1	İnformation on the importance of measurement and evaluation in education .
2	Information on the basic concepts/ terms used in Measurement and Evaluation course.
3	Understanding the qualities that are required in a measurement instrument (tool).
4	Being able to recognize the test types
5	able to recognize the principles of writing questions
6	Being able to write questions appropriate for test types and principles of question writing
7	Being able to do the validitiy and reliability works while preparing measurement instruments
8	Being aware of the importance of measurement and evaluation in education.
9	Being affectively eager to the learning activities required in the course.
10	Being willing to use the valid and reliable measurement instruments.
11	Being able to implement the certain measurement instruments used in education and psychology.
12	Being able to do statistical processes on measurement results and interprete them
13	Being able to interprete the measurement results obtained from certain measurement instruments in education and psychology.

Mode of Delivery

Normal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Importance of measurement and evaluation in education Basic concepts Qualities required in a measurement instrument Measurement instruments used in education Evaluation types depending on performance Test types Developing tests Measurment of behaviours and writing questions Evaluating and scoring Statistical processes on test scores

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction of the course: Necessity, importance, forming the expectations, explaining the process and the criteria of evaluation. A general view to measurement and evaluation in education
2	Importance of Measurement and evaluation in education.
3	Basic concepts; variables and types; scales and types
4	Measurement and types; evaluation and types
5	Qualities required in a measurement instrument: Reliability
6	Qualities required in a measurement instrument.: Validity and usefulness.
7	Measurement instruments used in education and their feature: Written test, oral exams, short-answered tests
8	Midterm
9	Measurement instruments used in education and their feature: Tests requiring classification and multiple choice tests
10	Homework, Project, portfolio, performans, self-assessment and peer evaluation.
11	Test types and the stages of developing tests.
12	Writing items to measure the behaviours Evaluating and scoring
13	Statistical processes on the results of measurement: Item statistics and choosing the items
14	Statistical processes on the results of measurement: Test statistics.
15	Statistical processes on the results of measurement: Test statistics.
16	Final exam