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Table of contents
Introduction
to the topic
Concepts
Types
of testing
Techniques
Things to consider when designing a test
What makes a good test?
Table of contents(cont...)
Marking
tests
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introduction
Education is a weapon against many evils that could destroy the most
powerful beings on planet earth (humankind), such as poverty, illnesses
and ignorance and many others and evaluation is a vital element of all
systems of education. It is what makes possible to educators, teachers,
policy makers and the community in general have an idea of what is
missing and what has been accomplished, and that is not different to
Language teachers thats why this is an assignment about evaluation in
language teaching.
Concepts of evaluation
Concepts of evaluation(cont...)
Cameron
Testing
Testing
is a technique of obtaining
information for evaluation purpose.
Types of testing
Placement
Tests
Diagnostic Tests
Achievement Tests
Proficiency Tests
Placement tests
Placing
Diagnostic tests
This
Progressive or
achievement test
These
Achievement tests(cont..)
Achievement
Proficiency tests
Give
Advantages
Scoring
Disadvantages
The
Cheating
3. Short-answer items
Items in which the test taker has to provide a
short answer are common, particularly in
listening and reading tests. Examples:
What does them in the last sentence refer
two?
At what time is the plane scheduled to leave
to London?
Advantages:
There
Disadvantages:
Responses
Advantages:
Makes
Validity
Criterion-related
validity
Concurrent validity
Predictive validity
Face validity
Construct Validity
Formative Validity
Sampling validity
Validity in Scoring
How to make a test valid?
Criterion-related validity
The
Face validity
A test
Construct validity
Is
Formative validity
When
Sampling validity
Ensures
Validity in Scoring
Reliability
Test-retest
reliability
Parallel forms reliability
Inter-rater reliability
Inter-consistency reliability
Reliability coefficient
How to make a test more reliable?
Test-retest reliability
is
Inter-rater reliability
this
Inter-consistency reliability
in
Reliability coefficient
is
scores
Agree acceptable responses and appropriate
scores at outset of scoring
Indentify candidates by number, not name
Employ multiple, independent scoring
Marking Tests
Training
More
Training
if
Analytic profiles
marking
Conclusion
Evaluation
Bibliography
Cronbach,
Thank You