Both are being sponsored by the Schools of Education at Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia. A set of materials which covers the lectures, exercises and assessment will be made available on registration for the Unit. The Unit will begin with first principles and conclude with applications of rating scales, graded responses and partial credit to assessment using Rasch models. Elements of traditional test theory and their relationship to Rasch models will also be studied. The Unit will include use of a computer program written in a Windows environment for analysing data according to Rasch models.
Students can bring their own data sets for analysis.
This unit, offered in the summer mode, is a unit in the Bachelor of Education, Master of Education and Graduate Diploma in Social Research and Evaluation programmes in the Schools of Education at Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia. The unit can be taken as part of those programmes by formal enrolment in a degree programme. The unit can also be taken as an independent unit with a fee equivalent to the fee charged within a degree programme, and can be studied at two levels. Attending classes, receiving materials, and participating in all activities without submitting work for formal assessment. A certificate for regular attendance will be issued.