MDP906 Personality and Attitude Assessment

Course Provider

National Institute of Education (NIE)

Certification

FlexiMasters

Academic Unit

4

Introduction

This course covers the non-cognitive aspects of educational  assessment. Non-cognitive attributes such as attitudes, interests, and personality are important to education for the 21st century. The course  complements those of cognitive assessments, to provide the breadth of knowledge for a MEd (Educational Assessment) specialist.

This course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in Learning and Development
- FlexiMasters in Learning and Development

Learners need to complete the following courses to attain the Graduate Certificate in Learning and Development (12 AU). 
  • MDP904 Motivation, Volition and Learning in-Action
  • MDP907 How to Nurture Creative and Happy Learners (OR DP907A-C)**
  • One of the following courses:
    • MDP909 Assessment and Development of 21st Century Competencies (OR DP909A-C)**
    • MDP906 Personality and Attitude Assessment

Upon completion of all courses, learners will fulfill the AU requirements to attain the FlexiMasters in Learning and Development (16 AU).

**Learners have to complete the entire set of modularised courses to be considered as completing one course.

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Course Availability

  • Date(s): 13 Aug 2024 to 12 Nov 2024

    Time: Tuesdays, 2pm to 5pm

    Venue: NIE

    Registration is closed.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• clarify the principles of affective measurement and assessment, and introduces psychological scaling methods
• provide the knowledge and understanding to select published psychological scales, or to adapt or construct affective
measures relevant to their research • engage the students in the development of an attitude scale.
1. Nature of psychological measurements.
2. Comparing and contrasting cognitive and non-cognitive assessments.
3. Basic concepts in non-cognitive measurements.
4. Measurement errors and biases (e.g. social desirability, response sets).
5. Development of a non-cognitive measure (attitude scale as a heuristic example).
6. Statistics in psychological scale construction.
7. Establishing reliability and validity.
8. Guttman scalogram, Thurstone scaling, Osgood semantic differential, Likert scaling for attitude measurement.
9. Personality assessment e.g. 16PF, EPI, MBTI
10. Ethical considerations.
11. Reporting psychological results.


A teaching qualification such as the Postgraduate Diploma in Education or at least one year of work experience in education.

Standard Course Fee: S$4,490.80

  • This course is not SSG-funded but is eligible for SkillsFuture Credit.
  • All fees stated are inclusive of 9% GST.
  • NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information. 

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    COURSE TITLE   ACADEMIC UNIT
    MDP904 Motivation, Volition and Learning in Action*
    		4
    MDP907 How to Nurture Creative and Happy Learners*4
    DP907A Discovering My Creative Self: A Psychological Journey
    		1
    DP907B Discovering My Happy Self: A Psychological Journey
    		1
    DP907C Discovering My Creative & Happy Self: Further In & Further Out
    		2
    MDP909 Assessment and Development of 21st Century Competencies
    		4
    DP909A Principles and Perspectives of Assessing 21st Century Competencies
    		1
    DP909B Designing Task and Rubric for Assessing 21st Century Competencies
    		1
    DP909C Assessing 21st Century Competencies
    		2

    Listed courses are:

    • Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Learning and Development (total 12AUs) and FlexiMasters in Learning and Development (total 16AUs)

    *SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved

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