TEST TYPES AND APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TESTING

A method of Measuring a person's ability, knowledge or performance in a given domain

• Competition

• Assessment

• Test

• Teaching

The wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.

• Assessment

• Teaching

• Test

• Treatment

Evaluate student learning at the conclusion of a specific instructional period—typically at the end of a unit, course, semester, program, or school year.

• Informal Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Formative Assessment

• Pre-test

Evaluate the students in the process of forming their competencies and skills with the goal of helping them to continue that growth process

• Informal Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Post-test

• Formative Assessment

Each test takers' score is interpreted in relation to mean score , median, standard deviation and percentile rank

• Criterion-Referenced Test

• Norm-Referenced Test

• Informal Assessment

• Informal test

Constructed on the assumption that language can be broken down into its component parts (listening, writing, reading, speaking, and various units of language and those parts can be tested successfully

• Integrative Test

• Norm-Referenced Test

• Criterion- Referenced Test

• Discrete- Point Tests

Test more than one skill or item of knowledge at a time. So, if we see its testing tools it involves dictation and cloze tests

• Integrative Test

• Discrete-Point Test

• Norm- referenced Test

• Criterion- Referenced Test

Test which requires the students to complete an authentic task – a task which is a realistic reflection of a learner’s experiences in the outside world.

• Performance Based Assessment

• Discrete- Point Test

• Communicative language Testing

• Strategic Competence

One Shot, Standardize exams, timed, multiple choice format, focus on the right answer, Norm referenced Scores, Summative, Non interactive Performance fosters extrinsic motivation are the characteristics of...

• Alternative Assessment

• Traditional Assessment

• Language Assessment

• Classroom Assessment

Continuous long-term assessment

Untimed, Free response Format, Criterion Referenced Scores, Formative, Open ended, Creative Answers, Oriented to Process, Interactive Performance, and Foster intrinsic Motivation are the characteristics of...

• Traditional Assessment

• Language Assessment

• Classroom Assessment

• Alternative Assessment