Testing Terminology Quiz

What is the primary purpose of achievement tests?

• To measure how well the targets of a language course have been attained.

• To filter candidates for certain course programs.

• To assess the effect of teaching on examinations.

• To measure the ability to use language in real-life situations.

What type of test has only two possible answers to choose from?

• Alternative answer item

• Achievement test

• Barrier test

• Cloze test

What does analytic scoring involve?

• Scoring a mark for each component of a task.

• Measuring the ability to use language in real-life situations.

• Filtering candidates for certain course programs.

• Assessing how much people know and can do.

What is the focus of aptitude testing?

• Assessing how well people can acquire the targets.

• Measuring the effect of teaching on examinations.

• Filtering candidates based on their current ability.

• Standardizing the marking of test scripts.

What does the term 'backwash' refer to in testing terminology?

• The effect of testing on the learning/teaching process.

• The deletion of specific words from a text.

• The measure of how well a test's results parallel other tests.

• The use of test scripts to standardize marking.

What is the purpose of a barrier test?

• To filter candidates for certain course programs based on their current ability.

• To measure how well the targets of a language course have been attained.

• To assess the effect of teaching on examinations.

• To measure the ability to use language in real-life situations.

What is benchmarking in the context of testing?

• Using a selection of test scripts to standardize the marking.

• Measuring the ability to use language in real-life situations.

• Assessing how well people can acquire the targets.

• Filtering candidates for certain course programs.

What is the main characteristic of cloze tests?

• Deletion of specific words from a text and replacing them with gaps.

• Scoring a mark for each component of a task.

• Filtering candidates for certain course programs.

• Measuring the ability to use language in real-life situations.

What does communicative language testing measure?

• The ability to use language rather than measuring formal systems.

• The effect of testing on the learning/teaching process.

• The deletion of specific words from a text.

• The use of test scripts to standardize the marking.

What does concurrent validity measure?

• How well a test's results parallel the results of other tests.

• How well the test items represent what needs to be tested.

• How precisely we can describe what we are testing.

• How well people can acquire the targets.