ELT224 - Review

Which of the following statements is correct about a test?

• A test is the only way teachers can gather information.

• A test measures a group of students’ competences.

• A test is an explicit and structured instrument.

• A test considers a wider process than assessment.

Which of the following is an example of informal assessment?

• Asking students what they remember from last class.

• Measuring students’ abilities through a written test.

• Assigning a group project to be presented during the term.

• Addressing students’ skills through the recording of a podcast.

Which of the following is an example of summative assessment?

• A survey that students answer at the end of the class.

• A written report to be delivered at the end of the unit.

• A set of questions asked to students in classes during the unit.

• A virtual forum that students have to answer each class.

A gap filling test in which students need to write the most appropriate words in the spaces provided, which occur every 10-12 words, is an example of:

• Formative testing

• Dictation testing

• Discrete-point testing

• Integrative testing

A test in which students have to write the words they hear from a recording, focusing on the spelling of those words, is an example of:

• Communicative language testing

• Dictation testing

• Cloze testing

• Discrete-point testing

A short quiz answered in class to review the contents studied that day by students is an example of:

• Formative test

• Dictation test

• Diagnostic test

• Cloze test

A reading test taken by students of the English subject at the beginning of the term is an example of:

• Formative test

• Informal test

• Diagnostic test

• Cloze test

The focus of a test may vary from assessing general to specific skills in students.

• True

• False

A test must address students’ abilities in relation to specific domains.

• True

• False

All assessments are tests.

• True

• False