This course is designed to give a fundamental understanding of the major aspects of assessment in the classroom, in education and in society. It sets the stage for educators to develop and conduct assessment in practice. Topics include purposes and principles of assessment, planning the assessment process, choosing and developing appropriate tools. This course covers, but is not limited to, the following basic concepts: formative versus summative assessment, norm versus criteria reference, high versus low stake tests, objective versus subjective items, standard setting, item analysis, difficulty and discrimination index, reliability and validity, etc. After completion of the course, participants are expected to take reasonable steps to ensure that their tests are of sufficient quality to give useful results and for making correct interpretations.

CILO-1: To provide basic knowledge and concepts of classroom assessment, and to emphasize on the coherence among instructional objectives, classroom teaching and assessment.