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Kinds of Test & Testing

The document discusses different kinds of tests used for language assessment including proficiency tests, achievement tests, diagnostic tests, placement tests, discrete point tests, and integrative tests. It also discusses the components of tests as being either direct or indirect and having an objective or subjective format. Formal assessments are more systematic and planned than informal assessments.

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Kinds of Test & Testing

The document discusses different kinds of tests used for language assessment including proficiency tests, achievement tests, diagnostic tests, placement tests, discrete point tests, and integrative tests. It also discusses the components of tests as being either direct or indirect and having an objective or subjective format. Formal assessments are more systematic and planned than informal assessments.

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KINDS OF TEST

M.3
TESTS

ASSESSMENT

TEACHING

TEST ASSESSMENT
• Subset of assessment; not only • An ongoing process that
form of assessment that a encompasses a much wider
teacher can make. Test is
prepared administrative domain (students’ respond
procedure that occur at to a questions, offers a
identifiable times in a comment/tries a new word
curriculum when learners or structure
muster all their faculties.
Teaching sets up the practice games of language learning; the
opportunities for learners to listen, think, take risks, set goals &
process feedback from the “coach” and then recycle through the
skills that they are trying to master.

Informal Assessment Formal Assessment


• Starting with incidental, • They are systematic, planned
unplanned comments and sampling techniques
responses & other constructed to give a teacher
impromptu feedback to the & a student an appraisal of
students. student achievement.
• Ex: “Nice job”, “Good work” • all tests = formal assessment
• “Did you say can or can’t?” • Ex; students’ portfolio
• A method of measuring a
person’s ability,
A test knowledge, or
performance in a given
domain
What is a test?

2. A test must measures


1. A method (an instrument-a
(some measure general
set of techniques, procedures
ability, focus on specific
or items)
competency)

4. A test measures
3. A test measures an
performance but the result 5. A test measures a given
individual’s ability,
imply the test-taker’s domain
knowledge, performance
ability about language
KINDS OF TESTS
1. Proficiency tests 2. Achievement test
Measured people’s ability in a language. It Related to the language course. It purposes is
concerns to the people’s specification & what to establish how successful the students or
someone able to do in the language in order to the courses have been achieving objectives.
considered proficient.
Ex: a. Final Achievement test
Ex; - a test whether someone be a successful
translator in United Nations b. Progress achievement test
- a test whether someone’s English is good
enough to study at a British university.

a. Objective

4. Placement Test
3. Diagnostic test It is used to assign students to classes at
It is used to identify learners’ strengths and different level. The placement test called
weakness. successful when it is constructed for
particular situations
KINDS OF TESTS

Testing of one element


at a time, item by item.
1. Discrete point Ex; take the form of a
series of items, each
testing a particular
grammatical structure
b. Components

By contrast, requires the


2. Integrative test
candidate to combine many
language elements in the
completion of a task
KINDS OF TESTS

1. Direct ; requires the candidate to 2. Indirect ; attempts to measure


perform precisely the skill that wish the abilities that underlie the skills
to measure. Ex; if we want to know in which we are interested.
how well candidate can write
composition, we get them to write Ex; one section in TOEFL , as
composition indirect measure of writing ability

c. Means
KINDS OF TESTS
d. Format
( the distinction is between methods of scoring)

1. Objective
- No judgement is required on the 2. Subjective
part of the scorer - If judgement is called for

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