Language assessment - M2 quiz

Which cognitive level does the following assessment target aim at?

“This assessment task aims to measure learners’ ability to give a summary of the key points from the provided reading passage.”

• Knowledge

• Comprehension

• Application

• Analysis

An assessment task, which requires learners to list the drawbacks of rote learning of grammar structures and then explain them with specific evidences from their own experiences, primarily aims at

• synthesis

• analysis

• evaluation

• all of the above

An assessment target should include

• assessment content or what to measure

• performance degree of cognition

• conditions in which the performance on the target content is expected to achieve

• all of the above

Which of the following criterion is violated in the assessment target below?

“The target learners would be able to retrieve the meaning of academic words based on their provided form.”

• Content criterion

• Performance criterion

• Student-centered criterion

• All of the above

Which of the following should be the best model to write an assessment target?

• (Target population) (action verb) (target content) (condition)

• (Target population) (target content) (condition)

• (Target population) (action verb) (condition)

• None of the above

That specific learning targets help teachers to choose suitable tasks to evaluate students’ progress is the benefit for

• instruction practices

• assessment practices

That specific learning targets help teachers to design suitable classroom activities is the benefit for

• instructional activities

• assessment activities

Identify the target content in the following assessment target.

"Can understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment) provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated."