English State Testing.

What is an Essay?

• An writing.

• An dumb thing.

• A paragraph.

• An writing about something.

Method of rating an assessment based on general descriptions of performance at specified levels; while a holistic scoring rubric may take into account performance along several dimensions (e.g., fluency, grammatical accuracy, and word choice for oral language), one overall score which best represents the examinee's performance is assigned.

• holistic scoring

• Impact

• Percentile

• Raw score

What is AQL?

• Acquire Quality Level

• Acceptance Quantity Limit

• Acceptance Quality Level

• Acquire Quantity Limit

Engineers have to be able to spot failure points, and then try to _____

• define the problem
• do research
• isolate variables
•  fix their solution

Test whose results are used to assign students to classes designed for learners at a particular level

• Needs assessment

• Placement test

• Parallel forms

• Proficiency test

Test in which examinees demonstrate knowledge, skill, or ability by selecting a response from a list of possible answers

• performance test

• Multiple choice

• Integrative test

• High-stakes test

Is this statement true about validity?

"A valid prompt produces written products whose scores reflect the range of listening proficiencies represented in the class."

• True

• False

Test of ability in a defined area of language; the area may be narrowly-defined (e.g., English for airline pilots) or broader (e.g., social and academic language). Proficiency tests are not tied to a specific curriculum or course and are often contrasted with achievement tests.

• Performance assessment

• Program evaluation

• Proficiency test

• Parallel forms

I. Primary Trait Scales

II. Interval Scales

III. Holistic Scales

IV. Analytic Scales

Based on the above traits, which are the scoring procedures for writing?

• I and II

• I, II, III

• I, III, IV

• All  of the above

Which phrases

• Take a first right

• Take a first left

• Take a second right

• Take a second left