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A Brief History on the Approaches to
Language Testing
In the 1950s, an era of behaviorism and special
attention to constrastive analysis, testing focused on
specific language elements such as the phonological,
grammatical, and lexical contrasts between two
languages.
Between the 1970s and 1980s, communicative theories
of language brought with them a more integrative view of
testing in which specialists claimed that the whole of
communicative event was considerably greater than the
sum of its linguistic element (Clark, 1983; Brown, 2004: 8)
Definition of Language Testing
According to Oller (1979, 1-2), a language testing is a
device that tries to assess how much has been learned
in a foreign language course, or some part of a course
by learners.
According to Brown (2004: 3), a language testing is a
method of measuring a person’s ability, knowledge, or
performance in a given domain.
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2. STANDARDIZED
TESTS
Such was the success
accomplished by dint of
standardized testing that, in the
current state of affairs, their
utility ranges from attesting
driver’s licenses, job upgrading
to academic admission or
placement, to name but a few.
3. Purpose of objective of standardized
tests
The primal pursuit that the standardized-testing
movement has been after over time refers to
the ease by which comparison between the
competences and aptitudes from an assorted
population of individuals with disparate
backgrounds in terms of education may be
brought to fruition.
4. Test
specifications
In this sense, three overall bases
are outlined. Firstly, every
standardized test must be
subjected to a representativeness
across a specific knowledge
domain; secondly, the format
along with the scoring are the
benchmarks on which
standardized test are reliant; and
thirdly, the conditions in which
the test is conducted are to be
consistent (Sefcik, Bice, & Prerost,
2013)
5.
6. Design, select and
arrange test items
In this Design and development
of educational resources and
strategies in EFL 9 sense, it
happens to be prevailing the way
in which this phase is conducted
as it entails that an appropriate
draft of the test items layout
empower students with the
capacity to have a closer look at
how the test has been designed
and in turn enables them to
contrive a course of action to
manage with the overall test.
7. Multiple choice exams
This sort of item-based tests
might be perceived a bit shallow
and as though they lacked
sufficient depth to assess students
mastery of the content. On the
other hand, the ease this sort of
test provides in terms of grading,
though not that much in devising,
must be born in mind as it
enables teachers to hasten this
process (Center for Teaching and
Learning, s.f).
8. Essay Questions
Among the benefits these test possess
are the nearly no complexity when
designing them along with the time
efficiency. However, essay questions are
barely reliable in grading as they are
high likelihoods for these tests to suffer
from bias which differs from reader to
reader. Hence it renders this sort of tests
to be reduced to a short-answer items
rather than essay questions per se.
(Davis, 1993)
9. Reporting formats
Reporting can be defined as “the process of communicating results of
assessment and evaluation to various audiences who require it – students,
parents/guardians, other teachers and administrators, other learning
institutions and/or others as appropriate (Board, 2013, p.7).
Percentiles
Z-Scores
T-Scores
Stanine Score
Scaled Scores
10. Design Classroom language tests
Among the varying language tests, they
fall into five widespread types: •
Language aptitude tests • Language
proficiency test • Placement tests •
Diagnostic tests and • Achievement tests
11. Reading Test
The comprehension of reading
comprises the addition of varying
subskills and in turn linguistic
knowledge bases (Grabe, 2009)
12. Use of Language Test
One of the concerns with which the
development of language test has
encountered has been how may be
attainable to get information that
enables examiners to come to inferences
regarding test-takers language ability in
terms of a reliable and highly evaluated
grammatical frame (Bachman & Palmer,
1996).
13. Listening Test
The outline of a listening test, for the
most part, happens to be controversial
as some regard that the listening
competence involves an extended
repertoire of aspects such as cognitive
process, knowledge of the sources used
and the unique feature of interactive
listening. (Vandergrift & Goh, 2012).
14. Speaking Test
Speaking is often perceived as
the aspect most difficult to
master given that the level of
interaction required demands
strenuous control of the language
(Brown & Yule, 1997).
15. References
Sefcik, D. J., Bice, G., & Prerost, F. (2013). How to study for standardized
tests. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/796815917
Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational
assessment. (2001). National Academies Press.
