TESTING AND EVALUATION

Summative assessment

Use to measures the product of a student´s learning

Taking into account how much a candidate knows

Formative assessment

Measures the student´s abilities as part as process

Teachers and students are involeved

Focus on how the students learn

Helps to the students progress to the next level

Student´s motivation

It has an emotional impact

Recognise the full range of achievement of all learners

Analyse the results and help to the students to do better

Test item types

Direct

Language tasks

Indirect

Grammar

Vocabulary

Some of the are:

Multiple choice

They are very common, used to measure vocabulary and grammar

Gap fill

Complete word or phrases

Transformation

Rewrite sentences

Reordering

Put the words in the right order

Summarising

Put what the students undertand in words

Skill focus test

Are based on the assesment of the language skills

Reading

Some of the are:

Multiple choice test

Writing descriptions

Paragraphs summary

Speaking

Some of the are:

Repeating

Interviews

Contrast and compare

Role play

Description

Reading aloud

Listening

Some of the are:

Filling the missing word

Following directions

Identify emotions

Identify who says what

Identify objects

Completing charts with listening activities

Writing

Some of the are:

Letters and e-mails

Compositions

Newspapers

Reviews

The young learners test item types

Some of the are:

Pictures

Are images related with concepts

Ticks

Put crosses against pictures

Dragging

Click in apropiate pictures-select

Is a tool used for teacher in order to see what students can and can´t do.

Through

Feedback

Feedback hellps students to improve in the process

Teachers desing

Tests and take into account

Objectives

Be clear with the strengths and waeknesses that studensts need to develop

Student´s Context

Take into account the time and the studens conditions

Future Action

Be clear about what is the next step after the test

Other factors

Test content

Balance

Scoring

Trialling test

Marking tests characteristics

They are administered and graded digitally

Strategies to evaluate

Training

More than one scorer

Analytic profiles

Scoring and interacting

Qualities of a good test

Transparency

Anyone concerned with the test should have acces to clear steatements

Validity

A test is valid if it tests what it is supposes to test

Contruct

Approach

is valid only if the test offers as accurate as possible a picture of the skill or ability it is supposed to measure

Content

Reliability

Refers to the consistency of the test results

Clear instructions

Washback

The tests have a really powerful effect on wha happens in classrooms

Good test have a very positive washback effect

Types of test

Placement test

Measures the leavel of proficiency in a new language

Progress test

Are used to measure the needs to be done in the future

Have a formative purpose

Proficiency test

Gives a snapshot picture of the knowledge and ability of thr student

Portafolio assessments

Students are evaluated based on some of the best pieces of work they produced in a period of time

Teaching for tests

Preparing students for a particular test format

Train for test types

Give to the studdents training to help them approach test items more effectively

Train for test rubrics

Remind to the students about the importance of reading the rubrics carefully and give chances to practise this

Discuss general exam skills

The students need to be able to organise their work so that they can revise effectively

Do practice test

Diffuse the tension; Making students feel more relaxed about the experience, it means, give to them opportunities to practise taking the test or exam.

Have fun

The students need to practise certain test types in different ways of having fun with tests and exams.