Webpages tagged with «Educational measurement»

As part of the internal professional development activities in LEA, several courses are offered to LEA members and associates. This course focuses on the application of two-level structural equation modeling in the software Mplus. The short course will introduce participants to the key concepts and syntax elements to perform and interpret two-level SEM with large-scale data.

Together with colleagues, Julius Björnsson edited a special issue for the journal Acta Didactica Norge, and many LEA members contributed to it. This issue concerns the topic of "Nasjonale prøver og eksamener i norsk og svensk grunnopplæring" and brings together eighteen contributions.

The LEA group has recently published a special section on the advanced technologies in educational assessment. This special section covers a broad range of technologies and psychometric models to measure complex constructs in education. It also brings to attention the potential and the challenges that are associated with these advanced technologies.

LEA contributes to the upcoming PhD-course on Basic Quantitative Methodology. The course comprises four days of teaching, and LEA organizes one day of it. Key topics include: (1) Scores, scales, and measurement models; (2) Reliability; (3) Content, criterion, and construct validity .