Educator Edge: Using Psychometrics for Quality Assurance-Exam Psychometrics

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The final installment in the series on writing and administering effective examinations focuses on providing quality assurance for exams. The main objective is to apply psychometric principles to evaluate the validity of exam items and overall exam quality. The speaker, a professional educator, shares insights on the importance of evaluating exam performance and feedback to improve teaching strategies. The discussion covers measuring difficulty and discrimination indices of exam items, statistical measurements, reliability, and ways to analyze student performance data. The importance of tagging questions with content areas for better feedback and curriculum evaluation is highlighted. Methods to assess exam items, identify errors, and enhance exam quality are suggested, including dropping or adjusting poorly performing questions, giving bonus status, and providing constructive feedback to students. The process of reviewing and improving exam items is crucial for fair and accurate evaluation of student knowledge and performance.

Keywords

quality assurance

psychometric principles

exam validity

performance evaluation

difficulty indices

curriculum evaluation

exam quality improvement

student feedback