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This is a lecture given at HKIEd in 2009 and 2011 introducing problems and solutions commonly occuring in CFA and SEM and how to resolve them using AMOS.

This is an introductory lecture given in 2009 and 2011 at HKIEd and in 2013 at UoA on principles of CFA and SEM using AMOS software.

This is a lecture given in 2011 at UoA to a group of doctoral students from Thailand. It covers basic principles of defining a construct, operationalising it, and validating it. It is illustrated with processes used in the development of a Chinese Student Conceptions of Assessment inventory, published in 2016 by Brown and Wang in Social Psychology of...

A provocation to the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, November, 2016. This presentation outlines key issues that need to be considered in potentially redesigning the assessment components of courses. It focuses on decisions around curriculum alignment, diversity of data collection, and establishing validity.

This is a staff development workshop conducted at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February 2013. Presentation details are: Brown, G. T. L. (2013, February 10). Keys to Successful Student Outcomes Assessments. Keynote presentation to the 2nd Annual Forum for University Teaching: Learning Outcomes Assessment, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA....

This is a staff development workshop given at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February 2013. Goals for the workshop included:–develop an understanding of the principles of validity, reliability, and fairness as they apply to the design of multiple assessment tasks –learn to conduct simple statistical procedures for verifying reliability of...

This is a course lecture given at UOA in 2008 on the underlying assumptions of psychometric approaches to modeling theories with data. 

This is a lecture given at HKIEd to Honours Students concerning basics of evaluating data. It is illustrated with SPSS.

This concept map (FreeMind) outlines the intended content of the course Educ706AB taught at UoA. It attempts to outline the major issues and ideas of measurement and point to the types of statistical methods needed to analyse properly and sufficiently the complexities of educational data.

This codebook/data dictionary provides users of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Inventory details of the structure of the data files used to analyse the New Zealand data. This codebook needs to be read in conjunction with the following complementary files: 1. The Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Questionnaire or Inventory a. Long with 50 items b....

Survey instrument for self-administered usage.  The item questionnaire was administered in 2003 for students.  Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T., & Hirschfield, G. H. (2007). Students' Conceptions of Assessment and Mathematics: Self-Regulation Raises Achievement. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 7, 63-74.

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2004 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L., & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2008). Students’ conceptions of assessment: Links to outcomes. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 15(1), 3-17. doi:10.1080/09695940701876003...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2005 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2005). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #4. Auckland: University of Auckland.DOI:...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2006 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2006, September). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment: A Survey of Four Schools. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #5. Auckland, NZ: University of...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2007 for students. Version 5 and version 6 are identical items, however contain different analytic models. SCoA-V inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T., Irving, S. E., Peterson, E. R., & Hirschfeld, G. H. (2009). Use of interactive–informal assessment...

This codebook or data dictionary provides users of the Students’ Conceptions of Assessment Inventory details of the structure of the data files used to analyse the New Zealand data. This codebook needs to be read in conjunction with complementary files specified within the document.