DELTA: ASSESSMENT AND TESTING EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
LATEST UPDATE 2026/2027
Integrative testing tests a wider knowledge of language
ability in certain skills. eg. essay,
dictogloss, oral test
Norm-referenced aims to test students against each other
testing 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 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 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 How easy it is to administer the test. (materials,
time to mark test etc.)
Backwash The effect that the test has on the
teaching programme LEADING UP to
it. Can be positive or negative.
+ More motivations, does homework...
- learning only for the test, lacking
functional communicative language
Spin-Off The effect a test may have on the learner,
teaching, and classroom activities that
FOLLOW the test.
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
LATEST UPDATE 2026/2027
Integrative testing tests a wider knowledge of language
ability in certain skills. eg. essay,
dictogloss, oral test
Norm-referenced aims to test students against each other
testing 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 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 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 How easy it is to administer the test. (materials,
time to mark test etc.)
Backwash The effect that the test has on the
teaching programme LEADING UP to
it. Can be positive or negative.
+ More motivations, does homework...
- learning only for the test, lacking
functional communicative language
Spin-Off The effect a test may have on the learner,
teaching, and classroom activities that
FOLLOW the test.
