Assessment Process and Test Design

Start with the assessment process

Begin with Language Assessment Process. This mind map introduces assessment as a process of making judgments about a learner’s skills and knowledge. It also asks what assessment is used for. Use those questions to frame your reading of the other resources on the page.

Next, open The Language Assessment Process. Its branches include purpose, procedures, items and tasks, administration, and language quality. The map also lists formative and summative purposes. Follow the branches in order, then return to any terms you want to study more closely.

Move on to test design

Designing Classroom Test lists placement, diagnostic, achievement, aptitude and proficiency tests. After looking at the assessment process, use this map to focus on the types of test a teacher might encounter. You can compare the names in the map with the purposes you noted earlier.

The page also lists Assessment of Language, a mind map that includes screening and referral, designing and administering an assessment protocol, interpreting findings, and monitoring progress and outcomes. Look at its sequence alongside the process maps to see how each resource organizes assessment.

Use the maps for practice

There are no quizzes listed on this topic page. Instead, pause at a branch of a mind map and ask yourself what it means before reading further. For example, try recalling the test types in Designing Classroom Test, then check the map. You can also return to the flashcard deck Text 5 for another format.

Place the topic in the unit

Assessment Process and Test Design is a section of the Language Assessment and Testing unit in Education and pedagogy (incl. teaching methods, curriculum, educational psychology). Use the topic page to focus on its listed resources before returning to the unit. Choose a map and trace the connections between its branches.