Language assessment

1.This is a kind of test item where students have to write words where there is a blank in a sentence or paragraph.

• Can-do statements

• Fill in

• Proficiency test

• ‘Sudden death’ test

1.This is the kind of evaluation which tells us how good a student is, and whether they match a certain pre-decide level.

• Can-do statements

• Fill in

• Proficiency test

• ‘Sudden death’ test

1.This is the name for a kind of test where 100% of a student’s final grade depends on one exam.

• Can-do statements

• Fill in

• Proficiency test

• ‘Sudden death’ test

5.This is the kind of testing that takes place bit by bit over a semester or a year.

• Continuous assessment

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Portfolio assessment

This is the kind of testing we do when we want to see how the students are getting on so we can help them to do better.

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• Continuous assessment

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Portfolio assessment

This is where we describe a student’s ability in detail.

• Formative assessment

• Learner language profile

• Portfolio assessment

• Continuous assessment

This is the kind of testing where we look at examples of work that the students have been collecting over a semester or a year.

• Portfolio assessment

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Learner language profile

This is the name we give to reading for pleasure –and taking some time to do it, often on our own.

• Extensive reading

• Word cards

• Big books

• Morpheme cards

We can ask students to match these with pictures to help them recognise word shapes.

• Big books

• Extensive reading

• Morpheme cards

• Word cards

What is the purpose of test evaluation?

• Estimating the level of some attribute of a person

• Interpretation of information. Used to make decisions.

• Method of measuring a person’s ability on certain level.

• The process of quantifying the observed performance of classroom learners