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WorksheetsChapter 1.4_Test Types & features
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following best describes achievement tests?
Measure global competence in a language
Identify learners’ strengths and weaknesses before a course begins
Place students into appropriate class levels
Measure learners’ ability within a specific lesson, unit, or curriculum
The primary role of an achievement test is:
To predict success in learning a language
To measure overall proficiency across all skills
To determine whether course objectives have been met
To assess innate language aptitude
Which of the following is an example of a diagnostic test?
TOEFL exam
A pronunciation checklist to identify learners’ difficulties
A midterm exam
A placement test
Diagnostic tests differ from achievement tests mainly because they:
Summarize learning at the end of instruction
Predict aptitude before learning begins
Measure overall communicative ability
Elicit information on what students need to work on in the future
The main purpose of a placement test is to:
Place students at an appropriate level within a curriculum
Evaluate proficiency for gatekeeping purposes
Diagnose phonological weaknesses
Summarize course achievement
A placement test often contains:
Only phonological items
A sampling of materials from the curriculum’s different levels
A single global score without subscores
Only memorization tasks
A proficiency test is designed to:
Summarize classroom achievement
Identify future learning needs
Place students into different levels of a course
Measure overall ability in a language regardless of curriculum
Which test is most likely summative and norm-referenced?
Diagnostic test
Placement test
Proficiency test (e.g., TOEFL)
Achievement test
The main limitation of proficiency tests is that they:
Are only used for placement purposes
Do not usually provide diagnostic feedback
Focus on a single skill only
Cannot be standardized
An aptitude test is primarily used to:
Measure a person’s capacity to learn a foreign language
Assess specific course objectives
Provide immediate formative feedback
Summarize a unit of study
Which standardized aptitude test was widely used in the US?
IELTS
TOEFL
GRE
Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT)
Why are aptitude tests less commonly used today?
They are too expensive
They are too easy to administer
They do not reliably predict communicative success
They lack standardized scoring
Formative assessment is best described as:
Summarizing student achievement at the end of a unit
Predicting future aptitude in learning
Evaluating students in the process of forming competencies and skills
Ranking students against a statistical norm
An example of summative assessment is:
Ongoing oral feedback
A teacher’s marginal notes on essays
A classroom discussion
A final exam at the end of a course
Norm-referenced tests report results as:
Grades on specific objectives
Percentile ranks comparing test-takers to each other
Teacher-written comments
Rubrics with descriptors
Criterion-referenced tests are designed to:
Compare test-takers against a national mean score
Provide feedback on specific course or lesson objectives
Eliminate diagnostic purposes
Be exclusively standardized
Which of the following is not a type of language test discussed?
Achievement test
Diagnostic test
Proficiency test
Motivation test
If a test measures learners’ verb tense usage in detail, it is most likely:
Proficiency test
Placement test
Diagnostic test
Aptitude test
A portfolio assessment is more closely aligned with:
Norm-referenced testing
Proficiency testing
Alternative assessment
Aptitude test
Which type of test would be most appropriate for gatekeeping (e.g., university admission)?
Achievement test
Proficiency testing
Placement test
Diagnostic test
