PEDS109 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Multiple Dispatch, Convergent Validity, Scantron Corporation

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS109
• Professor: John Dunn

Document Summary

Sept 14 purposes of measurement, testing, and evaluation: the true score is only known by god, emotions biased judgement. Systematic measurement error error that allows a person"s bias towards a person to systematically influence the way they evaluate or mark them. The subject will get a higher score due to the instructor looking to award marks anywhere possible. If someone makes a mistake marking the scantron or there"s an equipment malfunction, there is systematic measurement error. Systematic means that it applies to all people in a specific context. Random measurement error is random and would not exist if there was another evaluation. Example of this is if a professor marks one question wrong when it should have been right. Random measurement error has no way of eliminating it except for retesting or re-checking. Peer assessment where a peer of the prof will come in and watch him teach a class while observing in the back of a classroom.