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HOW TO TEST GRAMMAR - Coggle Diagram
HOW TO TEST GRAMMAR
TEST 2: ORAL PERFORMANCE TEST
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Problems
Validity of scoring system
Reliability of scoring system
Face validity of test
Student thinks their performance depends on their partner's
Spin-off
Practicality
Difficult to set up, administer and score than discrete item tests
Teachers cannot do tests in class unless it is being recorded
Subjective
The distribution of weighting of different categories
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Way to improve reliability of test
Having different testers score a sample of tests
If there is a marked difference in scores between testers, the criteria for assessment need to be assess
Advantages:
:check: Positive backwash effects
:check: Valid test
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Information gap task
chosen to stimulate the condition of authentic language use :
TEST 1: DISCRETE ITEM TEST
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E-factor & A-factor
Efficacy:
Reliability, validity, backwash effect and spin off
Practicality issues:
ease and economy factor
Face validity:
Appropriacy
Test 1
Only test students' knowledge of word order constraints on three adverbs
Need for support by an exercise that test students' ability to distinguish the meaning-not only form of the adverbs
Asking students to translate sentences into their mother tongue
Problem
: In Multiple choice test, students can guess the answer through random guesswork
Test 2
Classic gap-fill exercise
Learner has to attend the meaning of the text
This test easy to design, easy to mark
Cloze test
A test which every nth word has been deleted
Preferred way for progress testing
Effective for testing overall linguistic competence
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Problem
: Test 1 and 2 are form-focused rather than meaning-focused :!!: