7/28/2019 Delta 1 Testing Assessment

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Analytic

scale

Backwash

(or

washback)

Construct

validity

Content

validity

Diagnostic

test

Face validity

Final

achievement

test /

summative

test

Holistic

scale

Informal

assessment

Integrative

testing

techniques

1. A testing scale which divides the skill into

various components and award marks for each

category.

2. Backwash refers to the effect that the test has

on the teaching programme that leads up to it.

3. Refers to a test testing what it is supposed to

test and nothing else. For example, if the

students do not understand the instructions

and are therefore unable to get the right

answer to a test item, you will not have tested

what you intended to. or if you want to test

their listening skills and you give them a test

based on distinguishing minimal pairs, are

you sure that this will give you a good

indication of their overall listening ability?

4. Refers to a test testing what it is supposed to

test. In constructing a test you should draw up

a list of the skills, structures etc. that you want

to test. Then devise the test using this list. The

test may not contain all these things but

should contain a representative selection of

them. This helps avoid testing what is easy to

test rather than what is important to test.

5. Used at the beginning of a course to find out

what the students know and what they don't

know.

6. Refers to a test appearing to test what it is

trying to test. This is not a scientific concept; itrefers to how the test appears to the users. For

example, if you aim to test a student's ability to

read and understand whole texts, it might

appear strange to do this by giving them a

multiple choice grammar test.

7. Used at the end of a course to see if students

have achieved the objectives set out in the

syllabus.

8. A testing scale which uses descriptors and

looks at the writing from a global point of

view.

9. Activities such as asking concept questions,

checking understanding of instructions,

eliciting student explanations or definitions,

and all forms of oral controlled practice, and

written grammar exercises.

10. A technique to find out how well a student can

use his combined knowledge of single items.

Placement test /

entry test

Practicality

Proficiency test

Progress test /

formative test

Scorerreliability

Standardisation

Test reliability

11. Used to find what a learner's level is

before deciding which course or level

he/she should follow.

12. this means that it is possible to carry out

the test. For example if you want to use a

video for testing listening skil ls, have yougot sufficient copies of the video and

enough video players for all of the classes

that need it.

13. Focuses on what students are capable of

doing in a foreign language, regardless of

the teaching programme.

14. Administered during the course. The test

aims to find out how well students have

grasped what has been taught on the

course so far.

15. This means that different markers orscorers would give the same marks to the

same tests. This is easy with discrete item

tests such as multiple choice if there really

is only one correct answer and the

markers mark accurately. But with, for

example, a piece of 'free writing', the

marking may be more subjective,

particularly if the marker knows the

students who did the test.

16. A system in which all teachers mark the

same pieces of work (samples) and agree

on the marks.

17. This means that if the same students, with

the same amount of knowledge, took the

same at a different time they would get

more or less the same results. The closer

the results, the more reliable the test. It is

unlikely that teachers designing tests will

be able to test this kind of reliability.

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