The document discusses testing and evaluation in education. It defines testing as a method to collect information to make educational decisions and notes that tests produce scores representing student attributes. The document also discusses evaluating language proficiency through testing listening comprehension, reading, dictation and other skills. It states that evaluation should use multiple methods and considers domain referencing, criterion referencing and norm referencing in interpreting test scores.
2. 1. What kind of decisions do you make based on the results of students test performance?
3. 2. Do you tell students, before they take a test, how you will judge their test performance?. If not why not? How do you report students’ test results, and how do you use those results?
4. 3. Have you ever had a student or a group of students who just couldn’t do well on tests? What is your explanation of their difficulty? What did you or could you do about it?
5. 4. How do you decide when and how often to test? 5. Do you personally like taking tests? Explain
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13. A language test is a set of tasks requiring observable responses to language or in language , that can be scored and interpreted with reference to …
