Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in psychology and education : speech and language therapy | 3 crédits | |||
| Bachelor in psychology and education : general | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course introduces the theories and methods of measurement in psychological and educational sciences. It consists of:
1. An introduction devoted to (i) the definition of the measurement concept , by comparison with the concept of evaluation and (ii) the theoritical and practical problems of the measure in human sciences, as well as the different steps of the measurement process;
2. The developement of the measurement framework ;
3. The writting of the questions;
4. The preparation of the measurement instrument and the conception of complex test designs;
5. The Classical Test Theory
6. The Item Response Theory models and in particular the one parameter logistic model
7. The validity of the measure.
The cours will start by a presentation of the different statistical notions frequently used in the course.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course aims at :
1. Familiarizing students with the fundamental concepts of psychometrics ;
2. Making students sensitive to the measurement problems encoutered in human sciences ;
3. Describing the rules and procedures for the elaboration of a measurement instrument ;
4. Enabling students to compute and interpret several psychometric indices from the Classical Test Theory
5. Initiating students to Item Response Theory models
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Talk and exercises
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
The course notes and the slides are available on myulg.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
The assessement consists of 40 True-False questions and 5 exercises. The True-False section represents 80% of the score.
Work placement(s)
None
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Students are not allowed to record the lecture
Contacts
Christian Monseur
cmonseur@ulg.ac.be
++ 32 4 366 20 95