Popular and sometimes misunderstood term in current educational practice
What is assessment?
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The process of quantifying the observed performance of classroom learners.
What is measurement?
100
Evaluating students in the process of formingtheir competencies and skills with the goal of helping them to continue that growth process.
What is formative assessment?
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Test limited to particular material addressed in a curriculum within a particular timefram and offered after a course focused on the objectives in question.
What is achievement test?
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John Oller argued that language competence is so global and cannot be captured in additive tests of grammar, reading, vocabulary, and other discrete points of language.
What is integrative testing?
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A subset of assessment.
What is test?
200
Involves interpretation of information when the results of a test or other assessment procedure are used in decision making.
What is evaluation?
200
Measures, or summarizes, what a student has grasped and typically occurs at the end of a course or unit of instruction.
What is summative assessment?
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Determines aspects of a language that a student needs to develop or that should be included in the course.
What is diagnostic test?
200
Suggests an indivisible view of language proficiency and that the four skills cannot be disentangled from each other in language performance.
What is unitary trait hypothesis?
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Appraising or estimating the level or magnitude of some attribute of a person.
What is an assessment?
300
Incidental, unplanned comments and responses, along with coaching and other impromptu feedback to the student.
What is informal assessment?
300
Each test takers score is interpreted in relation to a mean(average score), median (middle score), standard diviation (extent of variance in scores), and /or percentile rank.
What is norm-referenced tests?
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Tests overall ability.
What is a proficiency test?
300
The fundamental principles of language testing according to Palmer and Bachman include a need for correspondence between language test performance and language use.
What is communicative language testing tasks?
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A method of measuring a persons ability, knowledge , or performance in a given domain.
What is a test?
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Exercises or procedures specifically designed to tap into a storehouse of skills and knowledge.
What is formal assessment?
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Gives test takers feedback. usually in the form of grades, on a specific course or lesson objectives.
What is criterion-referenced tests?
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Measures capacity to learn a foreign language
What is aptitude test?
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The ability to employ strategies to compensate for breakdowns as well as enhance the rhetorical effect of utterances.
What is strategic competence?
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A well constructed test is an instrument that provides an accurate measure of the test takers ability within a particular criteria area.
What is domain?
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All tests are formal assessments, but not all formal assessment is testing.
Is formal assessment the same as a test?
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Standardized tests that are administered to large audiences with results efficiently disseminated to test takers.
What is norm referenced test?
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These assessments were designed on the assumption that language can be broken down into its component parts and that those parts can be tested successfully.
What is discrete-point formats?
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Typically involves oral production, written production, open ended responses, integrated performance across all skill areas, group performance, and other interactive activities.