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Types and Purpose of Assessment (:star: Achievement tests (The main role…
Types and Purpose of Assessment
Specifying the purpose and stating its objectives is an essential first step in choosing, designing, revising, or adapting an assessment instrument.
:star: Achievement tests
The main role of an achievement test is to determine whether course objectives have been met.
Achievement tests are often summative because they are administered at the end of a lesson, unit, or term of study.
An effective achievement test will offer feedback about the quality of a learner's performance in subsets of the unit or course.
:star:Diagnostic test
The purpose of a diagnostic test is to diagnose aspects of a Language that a student needs to develop or that a course should include.
The diagnostic test should elicit Information on what students need to work on in the future.
Diagnostic test will typically offer more detailed, subcategorized information on the learner
:star:Achievement tests
Some achievement tests and proficiency test can act as a placement test, the purpose of which is to place a student into a particular level or section of a Language curriculum .
The ultimate objective of a placement test is to correctly place a student into a course or level, a very useful secondary benefit is diagnostic information on a student's performance.
:star:Proficiency tests
Proficiency tests are almost always summative and norm-referenced.
Because they measure performance against a norm, with equated scores and percentile ranks taking on paramount importance, they are usually not equipped to provide diagnostic feedback.
If your aim is to test global competence in a language, then you are, in conventional terminology, testing proficiency.
:star:Aptitude test
An aptitude test is designed to measure capacity or general ability to learn a foreign language a priori (before taking a course) and ultimate predicted success in that undertaking.
The language aptitude test was ostensibly designed to apply to the classroom learning of any Language.