Top Episode Takeaways:

📐 Test blueprints provide the overall design and structure for an assessment. They define what content areas the test will cover and what proportion of the test each content area should comprise. Having a blueprint helps ensure the test adequately measures the intended knowledge and skills in a balanced way that reflects their importance.

🎯 Blueprints should be created for most types of assessments, including certification/licensure exams, educational tests, and even workplace skills tests. The blueprint is developed after conducting a job task analysis, curriculum review, or other process to determine the key knowledge and skills to be assessed. Subject matter experts should be involved in validating the blueprint.

✅ A good test blueprint will cover all the major content areas without overemphasizing or underemphasizing any topics, allocate questions to each content area proportionately to their importance, be validated by representative subject matter experts to ensure it reflects real-world requirements, be transparently shared with stakeholders so they understand what the test measures, and be updated periodically as the field evolves to ensure the test remains relevant and valid.

Bonus Question: Is there a particular platform or technology that you like to use when creating test blubprints?

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Amanda Dainis, PhD, MPA⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-dainis-phd-mpa-012b94119/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Tim Burnett⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tburnett/⁠⁠

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