On rather short notice I've been asked to do a presentation on
psychometrics to a group of high school math students (10-15 students).
When I agreed to say yes, I had a wonderful plan in mind. Of course, now
I'm realizing that there simply won't be enough time for them to do what I
would love to do. So, I'm now frantically searching for ideas. I'm hoping
to be able to give them a short instrument and go through some of the
simple computations used in item analysis, which might turn into using SPSS
to do the calculations and then explain what the different numbers mean and
how the information would be used. Of course, my main goal is to try and
turn these math people into future psychometricians, or at least get them
to think critically about testing and test results.
Any help or suggestions anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
- Marc
G. Marc Turner, MEd
Lecturer & Head of Computer Operations
Department of Psychology
Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
phone: (512)245-2526
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