please answer the questions in the attachment based on your reading.

Homework #2

Advanced Measurement and Evaluation

(25pts)

Based on your text and the lecture slides, please provide comprehensive responses to the following questions.

1. Discuss the major contribution of each time period to the field of educational and psychological measurement.

2. What aspect of assessment tends to cause the most problems in the assessment of minority students?

3. Questions # 1, 2, &7 in your text.

1. List some instances, preferably recent, of decisions you made about yourself or others made about you in which results from some kind of educational or psychological measurement played a part. Classify each decision as (1) instructional, (2) selection, (3) placement or classification, or (4) personal.

2. From your personal experience of a decision made, describe one or more instances for which an educational or psychological measurement could have been helpful but was unavailable. On what basis was the decision actually made?

3. For one of the attributes listed here, describe how you might (1) define the attribute, (2) set up procedures to make that attribute observable, and (3) quantify the attribute.

a. Critical thinking

b. Friendliness

c. “Good citizenship” in an elementary school pupil

d. Competence as an automobile driver