DESIGNING CLASSROOM LANGUAGE TESTS
This type of test predicts a person’s success prior to exposure of the second language
What is a Language Aptitude Test?
This kind of test is related directly to classroom lessons, units, or even a total curriculum
What is an achievement test?
This is a weakness of multiple choice test tasks
What is cheating may be facilitated?
This is how correct answer is called
What is key?
It is an assessment tool that evaluates abilities thorugh a set of fixed objectives
What is standardized test?
This is the abbreviation of the Modern Language Aptitude Test
What is MLAT?
The specifications for an achievement test should be determined by these factors
What iare the tasks employed in classroom lessons during the unit of time and the objectives of the lesson, unit, or course being assessed?
Multiple choice items in general are of these two kinds
What is receptive and selective?
This is one guideline when designing multiple choice items
What is design each item to measure a specific objective?
This is an advantage of standardized tests
They are already made
If your aim is to test global competence in a language, then you are, in conventional terminology testing this.
What is proficiency?
These are test specifications.
What are skills to be included, outline of the test and item types and tasks
It is a type of multiple choice item
What is True or false?
True or false "It is a good idea to write as many words as posssible when creating a multiple choice item."
False
This is a disadvantage of standardized testing
What is some tasks do not specify direct performance in the target objective?
This kind of test usually, but not always, includes a sampling of the material to be covered in the various courses in a curriculum
What is a placement test?
Whenyou plan an oral exam, you should include these two important steps at the beginning and the end.
What are Wind-down and Warm-up
This is a stem
What is the part of the item that contains the stimulus?
It is the extent to which item is easy or difficult to answer
What is Item Facility?
To evaluate English proficiency for non-native speakers is the purpose of this test
What is the TOEFL test?
These kinds of tests should elicit information on what students need to work in the future
What are diagnostic tests?
Before applying the test to your students this should be done.
What is answer the test as a student?
This is the number of choices a multiple choice item can have
What is 3 to 5?
This is the extent to which an item differentiates between high-and low-ability test-takers
What is Item discrimination?
Designing test specifications involves this important step
What is creating the different sections for the test?