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Test and assessment - Coggle Diagram
Test and assessment
Good tests
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Validity: Means that the grammar,vocabulary, and functional content should be carefully selected on the basis of the course.
Face validity
which asks the question, "Does the test, on the 'face' of rt, appeat from the learner's perspective to test what it is designed to test?" To achieve "peak" performance on a test, a learnet needs to be convinced that the test is indeed testing what it claims to test.
Construct validity
is to ask the question "Does this test actually tap into the theoretical construct as it has been defined?" "Proficiency" is a ConstruCt. "Communicative competence" is a Construct. "Self-esteem" is a Construct.
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Authenticity : the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task," and then suggest an agenda for identifying those target language tasks and for transforming them into valid test items
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Whasback:That feedback should
"wash back" to them in the form of useful diagnoses of strengths and weaknesses
Assessment
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Informal Assessment: what you,re doing when you're "coadning" your students and giving them
feedback
Formal Assesment: Includes exercises or procedures
specifically designed to tap into a storehouse of skills and knowledge.
Test
Types of Test and resons
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Placement test: The purpose of the test is to find out not only what students know, but also what they don't know and place them in the appropiate course level.
Public examinations/Proficiency test : To determine learners' levels in relation to generally accepted standars
What is a test?
A test is a method of measuring a person's ability or knowledge in a given domain, with an emphasis on the concept of metbod and measuring.
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References:
Davies, P. & Pearse, E. (2000). Success in English Teaching. Hong Kong: OUP
Harmer, J. (2007). How to Teach English. China: Pearson
Longman Brown, D. & Lee, H. (2015). Teaching by Principles. An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. USA: Pearson.