WGU ELO1 Module 1 Exam 2 2025/2026 – Get Verified Questions &
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Proficiency Testing - designed to measure people's ability in a language
Achievement testing - directly related to language courses in order to establish how successful
students or courses are in achieving objectives
Diagnostic Testing - Used to identify learners' strengths and weaknesses
Placement Testing - Intended to provide information that will help to place a student at the stage or
place in a program most appropriate for a student's abilities
Discrete point testing - Refers to testing one element at a time; item by item
Integrative testing - combines many language elements in the completion of a task
Norm referenced testing - a test which relates one candidate's performance to that of other
candidates (Norm= avg score) We are not told directly what the student can do in the language.
Examples: ACT, SAT, LSAT, GRE. Scores plotted on bell curve
Criterion referenced testing - testing which classifies people according to whether they can perform
some task or set of tasks (ie achieve a certain score) satisfactorily. Examples; annual ELP tests, such
as WIDA or ELPA
Portfolio assessment - a selective collection of student work, teacher observations, and self-
assessment that is used to show progress over time about specific criteria.
Authentic Assessment - procedures for evaluating student achievement or performance using
activities that represent classroom goals, curricula, and instruction or real life performance. Role
plays, discussion groups, presentations, teacher observation, portfolios (versus objective
assessments-multiple choice, etc)
Formative assessment - ongoing diagnostic assessment providing information to guide instruction
, Performance Assessment - assessment tasks that require students to construct a response, create a
product, or demonstrate applications of knowledge
Summative assessment - culminating assessment for a unit, grade level, or course of study providing
a status report on mastery or degree of proficiency according to identified learning outcomes
Scaffolding - providing contextual supports for meaning during instruction or assessment such as
visual displays, classified lists, or tables or graphs.
Self assessment - allows students to construct their own knowledge by enabling them to see
possibilities for reflection, direction and confirmation of their own learning. A key to successful
portfolio assessment
grammar translation - An approach to second language teaching characterized by the explicit
teaching of grammar rules and the use of translation exercises.
Berlitz Method (direct method) - the teacher teaches and addresses the students in the target
language only.
Audio-lingual method - It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that certain traits of living
things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement.
Silent Way (Gattegno) - requires that the teacher remains silent and the learner does the talking.
Learners can use their native language
Desuggestopedia - An approach based on lowering the students' affective filter as much as possible
to encourage acquisition.
Communicative Language learning - emphasizes real life skills
Natural Approach (Krashen & Terrell) - Comprehensible input, affective filter, natural order, monitor
Total physical response - James J. Asher in 1960's; language-learning tool based on the relationships
between language and its physical representation or execution; emphasizes use of physical activity --
pick up pencil, stand up
Answers for Guaranteed Success! Graded A+
Proficiency Testing - designed to measure people's ability in a language
Achievement testing - directly related to language courses in order to establish how successful
students or courses are in achieving objectives
Diagnostic Testing - Used to identify learners' strengths and weaknesses
Placement Testing - Intended to provide information that will help to place a student at the stage or
place in a program most appropriate for a student's abilities
Discrete point testing - Refers to testing one element at a time; item by item
Integrative testing - combines many language elements in the completion of a task
Norm referenced testing - a test which relates one candidate's performance to that of other
candidates (Norm= avg score) We are not told directly what the student can do in the language.
Examples: ACT, SAT, LSAT, GRE. Scores plotted on bell curve
Criterion referenced testing - testing which classifies people according to whether they can perform
some task or set of tasks (ie achieve a certain score) satisfactorily. Examples; annual ELP tests, such
as WIDA or ELPA
Portfolio assessment - a selective collection of student work, teacher observations, and self-
assessment that is used to show progress over time about specific criteria.
Authentic Assessment - procedures for evaluating student achievement or performance using
activities that represent classroom goals, curricula, and instruction or real life performance. Role
plays, discussion groups, presentations, teacher observation, portfolios (versus objective
assessments-multiple choice, etc)
Formative assessment - ongoing diagnostic assessment providing information to guide instruction
, Performance Assessment - assessment tasks that require students to construct a response, create a
product, or demonstrate applications of knowledge
Summative assessment - culminating assessment for a unit, grade level, or course of study providing
a status report on mastery or degree of proficiency according to identified learning outcomes
Scaffolding - providing contextual supports for meaning during instruction or assessment such as
visual displays, classified lists, or tables or graphs.
Self assessment - allows students to construct their own knowledge by enabling them to see
possibilities for reflection, direction and confirmation of their own learning. A key to successful
portfolio assessment
grammar translation - An approach to second language teaching characterized by the explicit
teaching of grammar rules and the use of translation exercises.
Berlitz Method (direct method) - the teacher teaches and addresses the students in the target
language only.
Audio-lingual method - It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that certain traits of living
things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement.
Silent Way (Gattegno) - requires that the teacher remains silent and the learner does the talking.
Learners can use their native language
Desuggestopedia - An approach based on lowering the students' affective filter as much as possible
to encourage acquisition.
Communicative Language learning - emphasizes real life skills
Natural Approach (Krashen & Terrell) - Comprehensible input, affective filter, natural order, monitor
Total physical response - James J. Asher in 1960's; language-learning tool based on the relationships
between language and its physical representation or execution; emphasizes use of physical activity --
pick up pencil, stand up
