Testing methods

These tests are designed to measure people’s ability in a language, regardless of any training they may have had in that language. 

• Achievement tests

• Proficiency tests

• Placement tests

• Diagnostic tests

These tests are directly related to language courses, their purpose being to establish how successful individual students, groups of students, or the courses themselves have been in achieving objectives.

• Proficiency tests

• Placement tests

• Achievement tests

• Diagnostic tests

It requires the candidate to perform precisely the skill that we wish to measure.

• Discrete point testing

• Integrative testing

• Indirect testing

• Direct testing

It requires the candidate to combine many language elements in the completion of a task.

• Direct testing

• Indirect testing

• Discrete point testing

• Integrative testing

It measures the abilities that underlie the skills in which we are interested.

• Integrative testing

• Indirect testing

• Direct testing

• Discrete point testing

Its refers to the testing of one element at a time, item by item.

• Direct testing

• Integrative testing

• Discrete point testing

• Indirect testing

These tests are intended to provide information that will help to place students at the stage (or in the part) of the teaching programme most appropriate to their abilities.

• Diagnostic tests

• Achievement tests

• Proficiency tests

• Placement tests

It aims to compare the performance of the individual with the other individuals in the group.

• Criterion-referenced testing

• Objective testing

• Norm-referenced testing

• Subjective testing

It aims to find out only the degree of success the candidates may have in doing something.

• Objective testing

• Norm-referenced testing

• Criterion-referenced testing

• Subjective testing

If no judgment is required on the part of the scorers, then the scoring is ________.

• subjective

• objective