E. Mitchell's Evaluate 1.1.3 – The Summative Assessment Quest

Showcase an assessment created and include how the method was used to assess the validity, reliability, and security. Post the assessment in your blog.

This is an assessment I created for my f2f class which integrates an online component.  When we lost a day due to the weather, I needed to keep my students on track for the AP exam so they had an online exam to take about famous contributors to psychology.  

This exam is valid because all possible questions relate to the required assessment.  Students are to be familiar with famous names and each question requires them to key in a name that relates to the pun-form contribution listed.  To help with security, you will also see that the exam is randomized and only shows one question per page. When an exam is reliable it yields consistent results (we discuss this in psych referencing ways to check this like split test reliability).  Two things prove reliability here.  First, I did allow each student 2 attempts on the exam.  Each time their score was different within a narrow range.  Secondly, the class grades were clustered around an average and the range was not wide.

The dates of availability as well as the time limit help ensure security.