Language assessment - M1 quiz

This is the process of giving meaningful numbers to persons or objects based on how much they have some characteristic.

• Assessment

• Evaluation

• Measurement

• Testing

This refers to the use of a set of items or questions designed to be presented to one or more students under specific conditions.

• Assessment

• Evaluation

• Measurement

• Testing

A systematic process in which a teacher collects information about students' performance.

• Assessment

• Evaluation

• Measurement

• Testing

This is done by using information to make decision about a person or an object.

• Assessment

• Evaluation

• Measurement

• Testing

The decision when a school head uses an assessment to find out learners’ levels of language ability to assign them to the most suitable class group.

• Diagnostic

• Placement

• Selection

• Classification

When a college uses results from an assessment to decide which students to admit to the course and which to reject

• Placement

• Selection

• Classification

• Achievement

When a teacher gives an assessment to find out which English sounds are difficult for learners and to choose useful practice exercises.

• Progress

• Diagnostic

• Assigning scores

• Selection

When a teacher uses an assessment to find out how much the learners in her class have learned (and so where she needs to review material)

• Diagnostic

• Placement

• Achievement

• Progress

Learners choose a topic and prepare a presentation about it. They give the presentation to the other learners in the class. The teacher gives them a score for the quality of their presentation.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

The teacher walks around the class while the learners carry out a grammar exercise on the use of adjectives. She notes the questions to which several of the learners gave incorrect answers. She spends three minutes reviewing uses of adjectives, then asks the learners to look at the questions again.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment