stages of test construction

1. STAGES OF TEST CONSTRUCTION

2. What is test?
A procedure intended to establish the quality,
performance , or reliability of something, specially
before it is taken into wide spread use.
what is testing?
 it’s an activity whose purpose is to determine what
learner can do or know about something.

3. Stages of test construction Are….
 1. Planning:
 2. preparing
 3. Reviewing
 4. Revising

4. Planning
 Determining the objectives of testing
 What abilities are to be tested?
 What techniques and methodologies should be used?
 What results we will get from it and how accurate it will be?

5. Preparing the test items
 Once we select the objective of the test ,now we will collect the
information/data to make the test valid and reliable.
The items that are used to construct the test are:
• Content
• Operations
• Addressees
• Topics
• Format and Timing
• Criterial levels of performance
• Scoring procedures

6. Reviewing the test
Once the test is prepared now it is time to be confirming the validity,
reliability and usability of the test by the team experts.
• After reviewing the items ,the experts would offer some comments for
modifications of these items .
• After the test developer made necessary modifications, the first draft
of the test would be ready to go under the scrutiny of the pretesting
step.

7. Revising test items
• His is the step where the test items are revised before testing
in the pretesting step
• In this step , the items which has already been corrected or
reviewed, and re-write.
• In this step the test items is called as semi final form.

8. SAMPLE OF TEST
PLANNING OF TEST
 KIND OF TEST:
Proficiency Test.
Skills that is to be tested: Speaking Skill
TECHNIQUE:
 Any activity regarding speaking skill

9. Back Wash Effect
 Accuracy
 Appropriacy
 Fluency
 Proficiency

10. Preparing
 CONTENT:
Videos, topics for debate/speech.
 OPERATIONS:
We will ask the student to listen the video and then interpret it in their own
words.
 ADRESSES:
Students of undergraduate level

11.  TOPICS:
Leadership, Importance of English language etc.
 FORMAT AND TIMING:
Listen the video for five minutes and then interpret it for five minutes.
 CRITERIAL LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE:
Student must speak for five minutes and teacher will check accuracy,
appropriacy, fluency, and proficiency.

12.  SCORING PROCEDURE:
Avoid subjective scoring.
Validity and reliability in scoring.

13. CONCLUSION
 Simply test is a formal instrument to measure what learners can do or
know about something.
 So to get the best results a test is to be refined from test construction
machine.

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