Introduction to Testing
Start here to explore the essential steps toward launching a valid exam.
Types of Testing provides a top-level overview of testing in general with descriptions of several common types of testing.
This lesson provides a general description of the components of a testing project and how they fit together in a flow.
We'll discuss what a JTA is and why this foundational piece of the process is so important to later phases.
We'll continue the discussion about creating and using a JTA to develop reliable competency tests.
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Learn how a preliminary exam blueprint is derived from the outcomes of our JTA and how tasks result in content areas that will inform the creation of test questions.
Understand how high-quality, valid items are created and related best practices.
This lesson explains how we can know that the exams – and the items that comprise them – are measuring what we want them to measure. Are they valid, reliable, and fair?
Learn the process used to evaluate the effectiveness of individual test questions by analyzing test taker performance data, allowing you to identify which items are too easy, too difficult, or poorly discriminative, to refine and improve future assessments.
Learn how to set a cut score (the score at which people have “passed” the exam), and why this step is integral to assuring your exam sorts the “competent” from the, shall we say, “not yet competent”?
Learn how we select and group items together to create valid and reliable forms. We’ll briefly talk about scoring or outcomes, and how to ensure these are meaningful.
A brief discussion of the options and considerations when actually deploying your exam into the real world.
