• Assessment
• Measurement
• Tests
• Criteria of Good Test
• Test Types
• Writing and Marking
Test
• Why test?
• Evaluation is the process of making a value
judgment about the worth of someone or
something (Nitko, 2001)
• Evaluations are used to understand the
efficacy of students’ learning processes and
strategies used by teachers to teach
students.
Quantitative
•Test scores
Qualititative
•Comments/opinions
:
• Assessment involves
testing, measuring or
judging the progress
(outcomes of teaching)
• One part of evaluation
Formative Assessment Summative Assessment
• It is used to monitor the • It is used at the end of the
student’s progress during a term, a semester or a year to
course to check how much they assess how much the student/s.
should have learnt.
• Form of formal tests like
• Form of informal tests and midterm, final exam or state
quizzes exam.
A test is an instrument or systematic procedure for observing and
describing one or more characteristics using a numerical scale or
classification scale.
Measurement is procedure for assigning numbers to specified
attribute or characteristic of person e.g. mental characteristics,
attributes and abilities, such as aptitude, intelligence,
motivation, fluency in speaking, achievement in reading and etc.
Evaluation is the process of making a value judgment about the
worth of someone or something (Nitko, 2001)
Pedagogical Purposes
Give diagnostic information
Provide students with a sense of achievements
Provide useful practice
Provide a clear indication of reaching a certain phase
Use for descriptive purposes in research
Misused in the classroom to get a noisy class to keep quiet
13.4.1. criteria of good tests
• Refers to the degree which supports
the adequacy and appropriateness
Validity from the scores (TRUE)
• Refers to the consistency from person
to person, time to time, place to place
Reliability (same students, with the same ability,
but a different time (NEVER CHANGE)
✓Proficiency Test
✓Achievement Test
✓Progress Test
✓Diagnostic Test
✓Placement Test
✓Aptitude Test
➢These are designed
➢These are used
to measure the test for certification
taker’s ability in a or promotion to
language. a more advance
course.
➢Based on course
syllabus e.g. end
of the term
This is a test to measure ➢ These are used to
learner language and skill identify student’s
process at the end of a language problems,
unit call progress test, and weaknesses or
at the end of a term call deficiencies to
achievement test. require further
teaching.
This is a test to place the ➢ These are used to
new students on the test of general
appropriate class or right intelligence and
level. linguistics ability e.g.
memory,
grammatical ability,
vocabulary level and
educational level.
Types of test item:
Direct and indirect test items
Indirect test item is the test that measure a
student’s knowledge and ability. Example:
Multiple choice, Sentence reorder, or
paraphrase.
Direct test item is the test that perform
specific communicative skill being tested.
Example: Writing test, speaking test, or
reading test.
Indirect test item types
1. Multiple choice question (MCQ) 2. Cloze procedure
3. Transformation and paraphrase
4. Sentence reordering
Direct test item types
1. Speaking: Interviews and
presentations
2. Writing: write an essay
3. Reading: Using real reading
material and having the student
respond to questions verbally and
or in writing.
4. Listening: complete the chart or
task
Writing and marking tests
Writing tests
1. Assess the test situation: how long the test, when and where it’ll
take place, and how much time for making the test.
2. Decide what to test: list what include in the test and test about what
like writing, reading or speaking.
3. Balance the elements: how many things should include in the test
with how long should take to balance. Like 20 MCQ for 20mn or
writing for 30mn.
4. Weight the scores: how many marks should give
5. Making the test work: try out the test with someone or some
student alike before put it in the real time test.
Why test students?
• Diagnose individual student strengths
and weaknesses
• Focus learning and instruction to state
standards and key concepts.
• Motivate improved student, school,
district, and state performance
• Meet teachers and students
expectations
Summary
• Assessment
• Measurement
• Tests
• Criteria of Good Test
• Test Types
• Writing and Marking Test
• Why test?