Educational Testing (CCET) - Intensive Course

Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing (CCET)

Defining assessment needs

• What are psychometric tests and why are they used?
• Different types of tests and testing
• Using tests for formative and summative purpose

Administering tests

• Ensuring adequate preparation of the administrator and the candidate
• Correctly administering tests according to the manual’s requirement to ensure reliable valid and accurate results
• Correctly scoring tests

Maintaining security and confidentiality

• Ensuring best practice with regard to data protection
• Consideration of who should have access to results and why

Using educational tests of attainment & ability

• Understanding issues of bias and discrimination
• Using alternative approaches to testing
• Deciding when tests should and should not be used
• Influences of factors such as environment on interpretation of results
• Making suitable adjustments to tests when it is desirable and appropriate
• Identifying and reviewing tests that are fit for purpose

Statistical principles that underpin psychometric tests

• Distribution of scores and understanding norm referencing
• Raw scores and standardised scores
• Understanding error in tests
• Reliability and confidence in scores obtained
• Classical test theory
• How items are researched and chosen
• Validity of tests

Interpretation of test data

• Understanding what scores mean
• Allowing for test error
• Taking account of impact of results at the top and bottom of a test’s effective range
• Integrating test results with other data Providing feedback
• Writing good professional assessment reports
• Taking account of the multiple audiences
• Sensitivity to expectations of clients and their carer