Designing Reliable & Valid Assessments

Course Code: AED02

Program: Assessment, Evaluation & Data-Informed Teaching

Course Overview: Assessments are only useful when they produce information that is accurate, fair, and relevant. Poorly designed assessments can misrepresent learner ability and lead to ineffective teaching decisions.

This course equips educators to design valid and reliable assessments that align with learning outcomes. It develops practical approaches for creating fair and balanced tools, reducing common assessment errors, and improving the quality of assessment decisions.

Learning Outcomes

• Design assessments aligned with learning objectives
• Ensure validity and reliability in assessment design
• Identify and avoid common assessment errors
• Create fair and balanced assessment tools
• Improve the quality of assessment decisions

Target Audience: Educators, assessment designers, examination officers, curriculum specialists, and academic-quality professionals.

Learning Experience: Learners engage through video overviews, audio deep dives, study guides, practical examples, reflection prompts, workbook activities, applied tasks, knowledge checks, and end-of-module quizzes. Activities support assessment alignment, question design, validity, reliability, bias reduction, and quality review.

Course Structure: 5 modules / 17 lessons.

Special Feature: Every module concludes with a Putting It All Together audio deep dive that connects the key lessons and supports reflection and practical application.

Pathway Focus: Align assessment design. Strengthen validity and reliability. Improve fairness.