Standard Courses

The ETS Global Institute offers a variety of general training programs to build assessment expertise among education leaders, classroom teachers and school administrators. Program participants:

• develop an understanding of how standards and test specifications should align with test items
• learn how to evaluate test quality and the most appropriate delivery method to meet designated goals
• conduct psychometric analyses of test results and identify opportunities for curriculum improvements
• review the principles and benefits of scaling and equating in large-scale assessments

2018 Dates and Sample Agenda

The Global Institute offers scheduled three- to five-day courses on the following subjects:

Date	Title	Content
April 2–6, 2018	Design and Development of Large-Scale Assessments	Evidence-centered design Test development process Item-writing guidelines Item review and pretesting Item analysis and differential item functioning Performance measures
May 7–11, 2018	Issues in Computer-Delivered Testing	Item banking Automated scoring Test security issues Computer-based delivery models Consideration of students with special needs in test design
October 8–12, 2018	Design and Development of Language Assessments	Procedures for training item writers Assessment of listening and reading comprehension skills Scoring of performance assessments Design and development of performance assessments (speaking/writing item rubric development) Contemporary research issues in language assessment Benchmarking to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
December 3–7, 2018	Psychometric Methods	Overview of psychometric concepts Reliability and standard error of measurement Automated essay scoring Scale development Item response theory (IRT) Item/test analyses Item banking Standard setting Validity Test-score equating and scaling

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