1. UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOS CÁTEDRA DE LINGÜÍSTICA EVALUACIÓN DE ILE TESTING AND TEST CONSTRUCTION Profa. Rosynella Cardozo Prof. Jonathan Magdalena
3. What is testing? It’s an activity whose purpose is to determine what learners can do or know about something. What is a test? It’s a formal instrument to measure what learners can do or know about something.
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5. To motivate learners to review or consolidate specific material.
7. To guide the planning/development of the ongoing teaching process.
8. To determine if (and to what extent) the objectives have been achieved.
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12. Placement: To determine the level in which a person should be located inside a program (designed by the institution), e.g. CVA’s placement test.
13. Proficiency: To know if a person shows an overall proficiency in a language, compared to native speakers in real life contexts, e.g. The TOEFL test.
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15. Diagnostic: It refers to entrance behavior or previous knowledge. To determine strengths and weaknesses and to guarantee that potential problems will be corrected.
18. Indirect Tests: they give information about aspects that are not the focus but are implicitly addressed (a reading comprehension cloze may give an indirect measure of vocabulary knowledge).
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20. Criterion-referenced: these exams describe what a person can do in relation to the course objectives or predefined criteria. There is no comparison between students.
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22. Subjective tests: judgment and opinions on the part of the rater are involved. No right or wrong answer, but a continuum. (e.g. opinion/discussion items).
27. Test Construction I. Specific guidelines: The way the test is designed and organized. II. Moderation of mark scheme: The way in which teachers set the score of the test. III. Standardization of examiners: The way in which examiners guarantee a common criteria for correction.
