Revisiting Principles of Assessment for the 4 Skills

1) Listed are the basic principles of assessment except

• validity

• stability

• fairness

• flexibility

• reliability

2) The extent to which an assessment is viewed as covering the concept/content it claims to measure is also known as

• face validity

• construct validity

• predictive validity

• concurrent validity

3) Ms. Jane teaches process writing in her Form 3 class. However, during the midterm examination, she assesses the students only on the product. The assessment designed by Ms. Jane does not have

• face validity

• construct validity

• predictive validity

• concurrent validity

4) A university placement test which provides the likelihood of future success of a student in a respective course is an example of

• face validity

• construct validity

• predictive validity

• concurrent validity

5) Examiner A is tired, careless and bias in his marking. Therefore, Student 1 gets lower marks compared to Student 2 whose answer script is marked by Examiner B. Both students sat for the same test and provided similar answers. This is an example of

• test reliability

• rater reliability

• student-related reliability

• test administration reliability

6) Listed are the principles of assessing receptive skills except

• deciding what to assess

• selecting appropriate text

• restricting students’ responses

• assessing only listening or reading abilities and nothing else

7) Ensuring examiners’ agreement to ignore errors in mechanical accuracy such as spelling and grammar is an important aspect of

• obtaining reliable scores

• deciding what to assess

• selecting appropriate text

• assessing only the skills/abilities and nothing else

8) When teachers avoid designing assessment based on general knowledge and creativity, they are

• setting appropriate tasks

• restricting the students’ responses

• selecting appropriate assessment formats

• assessing only the skills/abilities and nothing else

9) Mr. James intends to design a listening test for his Year 6 pupils. He prepares the recording and writes sentence completion items. When marking the pupils’ answers, Mr. James penalises answers with wrong spelling.

Do you think it is right for him to do as such? Provide justification for your stand.

10) Ms. Cynthia plans to conduct a speaking assessment for her 30 Form 5 students. She prepares the questions and sets the date for the assessment. Ms. Cynthia intends to give her students the freedom to speak about the assigned topics for as long as they want.

Do you think she is doing the right thing? How can we help her to improve the assessment process?