The University of Kufa, College of Education, Dept. of English. 4th Year, Testing, Assessment, & Evaluation. Haider Al-Mansury

1. TESTING, ASSESSMENT, &
EVALUATION
TESTING AND ASSESSMENT, 4TH YEAR
AL-MANSURY
MEETING # 03
10/16/2017

2. •What is a Test?
• What are the components of a test?
•What is an Assessment?
• What are the most important qualities of an
assessment?
• Types of Assessments.
•What is an Evaluation?
• What are the principles of classroom assessment and
evaluation?

3. “Fine gold is recognized when it is
tested.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Constructing a good test is complex task involving
both science and art”.

4. A TEST?
•A method of measuring a person’s ability,
knowledge, or performance in a given domain.

5. THE COMPONENTS OF A TEST
•A method
• Explicit
• Structured
•A course of action to measure:
• An individual’s general ability
• Competence
• Performance
• A specific area of knowledge

6. AN ASSESSMENT?
 Collecting information and making judgments on a learner’s
knowledge.

7. THE MOST TWO IMPORTANT QUALITIES
OF AN ASSESSMENT:
•Validity
• the extent to which an assessment is appropriate for its
intended purposes.
•Reliability
• the consistency with which an assessment measures
language behavior.

8. TYPES OF ASSESSMENTS
•Formal vs. Informal
•Formative vs. Summative
•Norm-Referenced vs. Criterion-Referenced

9. EVALUATION?
the collection and interpretation of information for
making decisions about the effectiveness of an
educational program.

10. ACTIVITY
•In some educational settings, the quality of
language programs is judged solely on the basis of
students’ test scores. Is this fair?

11. ACTIVITY
•Imagine you were a teacher and you were asked by
the school you work in to provide evidence of the
quality of the program you were teaching. Write
down a list of the information that you would want
to collect

12. ACTIVITY
• A teacher wants to assess the listening
comprehension of her advanced ESL/EFL class.
She plays them a radio news bulletin and asks
them to write a short paragraph outlining the
main points. Is this a valid assessment of
listening ability? Why or why not?

13. WORKS CITED
• (Editor), David Nunan, Kathleen M. Bailey, and Caroline T. Linse.
"Practical English Language Teaching Series (1 Book)." Practical
English Language Teaching Series by David Nunan. Print. 15
Oct. 2017.
• Brown, H. Douglas. Language Assessment: Principles and
Classroom Practices. White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman, 2010.
Print.