DELTA: Assessment and Testing UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

DELTA: Assessment and Testing UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Integrative testing - CORRECT ANSWER tests a wider knowledge of language ability in
certain skills. eg. essay, dictogloss, oral test


Norm-referenced testing - CORRECT ANSWER aims to test students against each other
and thereby determin the top percentage and different bands within the cohort.
eg. who can move up to the next level
who can enter University


Scorer Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER idea that different markers or scorers would
give the same marks to the same tests (difficult within writing and speaking - subjectivity).
need clear guidelines
standardisation
double marking


Test Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER Reliable if the same students, with the same
amount of knowledge, taking the same test at a different time would get more or less the same
results.
eg. external exams - vital that there is not a large discrepancy in the level of difficulty in each
examining session.


Test Practicality - CORRECT ANSWER How easy it is to administer the test. (materials,
time to mark test etc.)


Backwash - CORRECT ANSWER The effect that the test has on the teaching programme
LEADING UP to it.
Can be positive or negative.