EPSY 485

Credit: 2 hours.

Designed especially for secondary education majors, course introduces students to basic concepts in assessment including: characteristics of traditional and alternative assessment practices, purposes of assessment, aligning curricula and assessment, assessment standards, administration, scoring, and interpretation. The discussion sections are organized by content specialization, they are project-based and provide students with supervised experience in developing, administering, scoring and interpreting traditional and alternative assessments.

Prerequisite: EPSY 236; undergraduates should be concurrently enrolled in CI 403.

Students will be required to participate in a total of 2 hours of experiments outside of class. Note: Must be in the teacher's education program to register. Students must register for one lab and one lecture section.