PSYM 810 - Pro-Seminar in Selected Topics in Advanced Psychometrics

Three hours.
3 Credits

This course is designed to provide a forum for the discussion of a range of specialty topics designed to enhance the knowledge, skills and abilities of PhD students related to applied statistics, measurement, and assessment. This course examines advanced topics in areas such as technical developments and applications in classical test theory, item response theory, generalizability theory, models of selection bias, differential item functioning, and test score equating, equating, scaling and linking, and estimation methods. The course may cover one or more topics each semester that it is offered. Emphasis is placed on the examination of the key research issues of the topic(s) to assist the student in making a selection of topics for the dissertation.

Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Instructor
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING