Objectives
* Define validity and reliability regarding exams.
* Discuss factors affecting validity and/or reliability.
* List principles of test item writing to the construction of an exam.
* List factors involved with evaluating an exam's validity and/or reliability.

Topic Highlights
"Do I have to know this for the test?"

We hear this every semester, every program, usually repeatedly as instructors. While teaching to the test is generally frowned upon your students will take a test from a certifying agency confirming your students knowledge base. This session will cover principles that will assist you in better constructing program tests and exams that will define their abilties mroe clearly prior to them taking a certifying exam without success.

Audience/Track
This class is educational in nature and open to any level fire or EMS educator.