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Principles of language assessment

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is practicality?

a)

A test is effective

b)

A test has a good methodology

c)

A test is easy to administer

2.

A test is consistent and dependable. This concept is...

a)

Validity

b)

Reliability

c)

Practicality

3.

Human error, subjectivity, and bias may enter into the scoring process. This concept is _____

a)

Validity

b)

Washback

c)

Rater reliablility

4.

This happens when two or more scorers yield inconsistent scores of the same test.

a)

Inter-rater reliability

b)

Intra-rater reliability

c)

Test administration reliability

5.

This concept talks about outside noise, photocopying, temperature, etc.

a)

Test reliability

b)

Rater reliability

c)

Test administration reliability

6.

This concept talks about the extent to which inferences made from assessment results are appropiate, meaningful, and useful in terms of the purpose of the assessment.

a)

Washback

b)

Validity

c)

Reliability

7.

What is content validity?

a)

When a test measures the four skills selected by the school administration.

b)

When a test measures abilities seen in other similar tests.

c)

When a test measures what was seen in the subject.

8.

In an _____ _______ learners are not performing the task itself but rather a task that is related in some way

(a)  

9.

This kind of validity becomes important in the case of placement tests

a)

Concurrent validity

b)

Predictive validity

c)

Cirterion-related evidence

10.

This kind of validity refers to the degree to which a test looks right.

a)

Face validity

b)

Predictive validity

c)

Concurrent validity

11.

This validity talks about the theory, hypothesis or model used to teach a language and its application in a test.

a)

Face validity

b)

Consequential validity

c)

Construct validity

12.

Check the characteristics of high face validity for students

a)

A well constructed test

b)

Clear directions

c)

Cheapness

d)

Reasonable difficulty

e)

Clear photocopies

13.

A (a)   y is the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task.

14.

(a)   generally refers to the effects the tests have on instruction in terms of how students prepare for the test.