Testing

Testing

1. Definition

   • Activity whose main purpose is to convey how well the testee knows or can do something

2. Reasons for testing

   • Get information
   • Give information
   • Provide review or practice
   • Achievement and knowledge

3. Types of test

   • Formal
     • Testees knows in advance what they need to know and the criteria
   • Informal
     • Routine, classrooms interactions and homeworks

4. Elicitation techniques

   • True/False
     • Vocabulary-grammar
   • Multiple choice
     • Writing
   • Gap filling
     • Grammar-Vocabulary
   • Matching
     • Vocabulary
   • Dictation
     • Spelling, punctuation and listening
   • Cloze
     • Reading, spelling, vocabulary and grammar
   • Transformation
     • Grammatical structures
   • Translation
     • Meaning
   • Questions and answers
     • Almost everything
   • Rewriting
     • Paraphraising
   • Monologue
     • Fluency
   • essay
     • Writing abilities

5. Test preparation

   • Validity
     • It measures what it is purported to Measure
   • Clarity
     • Instructions are clear and they include a sample
   • Do- ability
     • Quite do-able, not too difficult and no trick questions
   • Marking
     • sections and percentage of the total grade
   • Interest
     • Interesting content
   • Heterogenity
     • Easy and difficult items

6. Test administration

   • Before the test
     • Give all the information about the test
   • Giving the test
     • Add information about the test. Interaction /passivity
   • After the test
     • Grading and disscussion about the test

7. Designing a test

   • Preparation
     • List the material (topics) that will be tested
   • Performance
     • Admistrate the test to a class or group of learners
   • Feedback
     • Ask the testees how they felt about it