University degree in Psychometrics and Rehabilitation

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  1. Description
  2. Objectives
  3. University degree
  4. Audience
  5. In practice
  6. Teaching support (included in fees)
  7. Speakers

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Description

The training course is not organized this academic year (2007-2008). Nevertheless, if you are interested in following this course, please send us an e-mail (avnihbyph rqyrierqani.y ro[javascript required]). We'll contact you for the next session.

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Objectives

Assessment questionnaires are today the most used measurements in heath and social sciences to evaluate latent variables as physical inability, pain or altruism. However practitioners don’t often use well these instruments. What do they really measure? How must the results be interpreted? Such questions are approached by the training course of Psychometrics in Rehabilitation. It’s not about simple instructions for use of assessment questionnaires. Its principal objective is to provide to both researchers and practitioners, methodology basis necessary to develop such instrument and to interpret its results. After the explanation of objective measure basis expressed by the Rasch model, speakers respond to frequently asked questions: What are criteria of an objective measure? Can results be interpreted as quantitative results? How validate a assessment instrument? Is it possible to compare observed responses between different subgroups of subjects? During four week-ends oral presentations with a lot of practical examples and with exercises courses will explain methodology basis of quantitative evaluation using the Rasch model.
Content (40 theoretical hours + 15 practical hours + Personal project)

  1. Traditional test theory
  2. Rasch Model: Introduction to dichotomous and polytomous models
  3. Objective measure criteria and parameter estimates
  4. Checking of objective measure criteria
  5. Psychometric qualities of measurement scale
  6. Learning of RUMM2020 software use

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University degree

Certificate is obtained after the presence to the whole program, and the success of a written and oral exam (presentation and viva of a personal project)

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Audience

Physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, doctors, ergonomists, epidemiologists.

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In practice

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Teaching support (included in fees)

Book: Développer et interpréter une échelle de mesure. Applications du modèle de Rasch (M. Penta, C. Arnould, C. Decruynaere, JL. Thonnard et L. Plaghki) ed. Mardaga, 2005 186 p
Software : RUMM2020

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Speakers

J-L. Thonnard and J. Grégoire (Professors at the Université catholique de Louvain), M. Penta (PhD in Biomedical Sciences), C. Arnould and C. Decruynaere (PhD in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation), E. Bouffioulx, L. Vandervelde, G. Caty and C. Batcho (PhD students)

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