FAME Bundle 2 – Courses 1 to 6

ACER's Foundation in Applied Measurement in Education (FAME) is a suite of 8 short, online, modular courses.

Rasch modelling short courses cover:

• introductory concepts and theoretical understanding of educational assessment and measurement
• item and test analysis
• differential item functioning
• test equating
• psychometric analysis reports
• large-scale analysis of educational data

COURSES 1 AND 2 Focus on the theoretical foundations that are essential to large-scale educational assessment.

COURSES 3 TO 8 Focus on applying the skills and require ACER ConQuest® software. Course 7 and 8 is offered for advanced analysis of large-scale education data. For more information about ACER ConQuest®, please go to the ACER ConQuest webpage.

FAME Bundle 2 includes Courses 1 to 6:

FAME 1 Foundations of educational measurement (Beginner level or refresher. 1 day. No additional software)

• Introduces the foundational concepts of educational assessment and measurement.
• Examines key concepts of reliability, validity, latent variables and measurement error.
• Covers basic statistical concepts used in educational measurement and reporting.

FAME 2 Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory (Advanced beginners / FAME 1. 1 day. No additional software)

• Introduces the foundational concepts of educational assessment and measurement.
• Examines key concepts of reliability, validity, latent variables and measurement error.
• Covers basic statistical concepts used in educational measurement and reporting.

FAME 3 Item and test analysis using ACER ConQuest® (Intermediate–proficient level / FAME 1&2 / Experienced analysts. 1.5 days. ACER ConQuest® software)

• Involves conducting and interpreting a psychometric analysis of multiple-choice assessment using ACER ConQuest® software to inform refinements to an existing measure. It analyses assessment items where partial credit scoring applies.
• Participants apply both the Rasch model and the one parameter logistic (IRT) model. Participants will work with models for dichotomous and for polytomous data.

FAME 4 Differential Item Functioning (DIF) (Proficient–advanced / FAME 1–3 / Experienced analysts. 2 days. ACER ConQuest® software)

• Explores important validity and comparability questions through an Item Response Theory paradigm by introducing participants to Differential Item Functioning (DIF) and requiring them to undertake a DIF analysis using ACER ConQuest®. 

FAME 5 Test equating (Advanced / FAME 1–3 / Experienced analysts. 2 days. ACER ConQuest® software)

• Explores test equating methods using the one parameter logistic (IRT) model.
• Participants will learn to equate 2 assessments on a common measurement scale through common item equating.

FAME 6 Automated psychometric analysis score reports with conquestr (Advanced / FAME 1–3 / Experienced analysts. 1.5 days. ACER ConQuest®, conquestr and RStudio software)

• Introduces participants to the conquestr package that interfaces with ACER ConQuest® software.
• Participants will use R and RStudio with conquestr output to produce an automated and reproducible psychometric analysis and reporting workflow for quality assuring multiple-choice assessments. 

Optional: Bring your own data (BYOD) sessions for Course 3 and 4: $550 per session.

• provides participants with an opportunity to apply newly learnt skills to their own data, share results with facilitators and have a live Q&A.
• a 1-hour workshop (in addition to standard inclusions) for each BYOD session.

To purchase the BYOD session for Course 3 or Course 4, please add the BYOD session(s) to your cart in addition to your bundle.