Language assessment

What does it mean when a teacher says: "Pop Quiz"?

• It is a difficult and short quiz

• It is an unexpected quiz

• It is an easy and unexpected quiz

______ : is a method of measuring a person's ability, knowledge, or performance in a given domain.

• Test

• Assessment

Constructing a good test isn´t a complex task.

• True

• False

Testing and assessing are synonymous.

• True

• False

_______ is the process of defining, selecting, designing, collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and using information to increase students' learning and development.

• Assessment

• Testing

Tests are a subset of assessment.

• True

• False

Informal assessment

• is a systematic, planned sampling techniques constructed to give teacher and student an appraisal of student achievement.

• can take a number of forms, starting with incidental, unplanned comments and responses.

For all practical purposes, all kinds of informal assessment are summative.

• True

• False

Evaluating students in the process of "forming" their competencies and skills with the goal of helping them to continue that growth process is ____

• Summative assessment

• Formative assessment

Summative assessment aims to measure, or summarize, what a student has grasped.

• True

• False