FINE DETAILS
A method or procedure for measuring a person’s ability, knowledge, or performance in a given domain.
What is a test?
An instrument used to determine whether course objectives have been met—and appropriate knowledge and skills acquired—by the end of a given period of instruction.
You are the answer!
(tell something you learned that you can use in the future)
What did I learn that I'll probably use in the future?
A text in which single words are deleted and the test-taker must provide a word that fits the blank space.
What is a cloze?
Macro skills where the medium is written text: Reading and Writing.
What are the Written Skills?
They are the main four criteria for evaluating tests.
What are Validity, Reliability, Practicality and Washback?
A type of test designed to measure capacity or general ability a priori (e.g., before taking a foreign language course) to predict success in that undertaking.
What is an Aptitude Test?
When the student evaluates themselves, their own learning, achievement, or progress.
What is self-assessment?
They are organized statements that describe what a student can perform at a particular point on a rating scale; sometimes also rating scales or band descriptors; used for evaluating.
What are rubrics?
They are the aural/oral skills.
What (type of skills) are Listening and Speaking?
The specific definition of an ability; the skill, sub-skill, or language component that is being tested.
What is a construct?
A test that is designed for specified aspects of a language, to determine the students overall level or dominion of the language.
What is a diagnostic test?
When students collaborate to review and assess each other's work.
What is Peer-assessment?
The effect of assessment on classroom teaching and learning.
What is washback?
Comprehending language by first attending to the “smallest” elements of language (e.g., letters, syllables, words) and then combining them
into increasingly larger elements, a way of understanding new information from the bottom.
What is bottom-up processing?
It is an assessment that aims to measure, or summarize, what a student has grasped, and typically occurs at the end of a course or unit of instruction.
What is summative assessment?
A method of assessment in which test-takers listen to a text and write down what they hear. It is most useful for formative and diagnostic purposes.
What is dictation?
An assessment method in which the test-taker actually performs the target task; as opposed to indirect testing.
What is direct testing?
These are all examples that can be used in tests: cloze, fill-in-items, multiple matching, true/false statements, open questions, multiple choice, etc.
What are some examples of item types?
The two Productive Skills.
What are/Which are Speaking and Writing?
It is a quality that is defined by the extent to which a test yields consistent and dependable results.
What is reliability?
Different from a diagnostic test, you would do this type of test when determining the level, grade, or position of a new student in the curriculum or school program.
What is a placement test?
An ongoing process of collecting information about a given performance according to systematic and substantively grounded procedures.
What is Assessment?
It looks like this example. This is the second sentence in the example. Now t _ _ item ty _ _ begins, follo _ _ _ _ the kno _ _ rule, a_ can b_ seen i_ eve _ _ other wo _ _.
What does a C-test look like?
Background knowledge, cultural or world knowledge and experience.
What is schemata?