A type of assessment which does not involve a final examination. Some or all of the work that learners do during a course is marked by the teacher on a regular basis and these marks go into the calculation of the final grade given to learners.

• Formal assessment

• Summative assessment

• Continuous assessment

• Objective assessment

When learners give their opinions on each other’s language or work.

• Self-assessment

• Peer assessment

• Formal assessment

• Continuous assessment

When a teacher uses formal and informal assessment and information on learners’ progress during a course to give learners feedback on their learning or to change their teaching.

• Subjective assessment

• Peer assessment

• Formative assessment

• Objective assessment

When a teacher decides whether a learner is doing well or not, or whether a course is successful or not, by evaluating learners by thinking about their strengths and weaknesses and thinking about their progress rather than setting a test or writing an official report.

• informal assessment

• objective assessment

• peer assessment

• summative assessment

When the opinion or judgement of the person marking a test is not needed to assess learners. The questions in the test/assessment have one correct answer.

• Subjective assessment

• portfolio assessment

• continuous assessment

• objective assessment

When a teacher assesses learners and then gives them a formal report or grade, to say how successful or unsuccessful they have been.

• Formative assessment

• Formal assessment

• Continuous assessment

• Subjective assessment

When learners assess themselves, they decide how good they think their progress, learning or language use is.

• peer assessment

• portfolio assessment

• formal assessment

• self-assessment

A __________ is used at the beginning of a course in a language school in order to identify a learner’s level of language and find the best class for them.

• Progress test

• Achievement test

• Placement test

• Summative test

A _______ is used to see how good learners are at using the target language. The contents of a ________ are not chosen according to what has been taught, but according to what is needed for a particular purpose, e.g. English for hotel receptionists, English for studying at university, English for general communication.

• Proficiency test

• Achievement test

• Progress test

• Subjective test

A task-type in which learners read a text with missing words and try to work out what the missing words are. The missing words are removed regularly from the text, e.g. every seventh word. It is used for testing reading ability or general language use.

• closed question

• multiple-choice question

• cloze test

• information-gap activity