Stages of test developing

1. State the problem

What kind of test is it to be?

Proficiency, diagnostic or placement.

The precise purpose

What abilities have to be tested?

How detailed must the results be?

How important is back wash?

What constraints are set unavailiatibity of expertise time?

2. Specifications

Content

Operations, Type of text. Adresses, Leght of text. Topics. Readability.

Structural and vocabulary range.

Dialect, accent and style

Speed of processing

Strucutre, timing, techniques and medium

Number of items and passages

Channel: paper, online, face to face, etc.

Criterial levels of performance

Accuracy

Appropriacy

Range

Flexibility

Size

Scoring procedures

3. Moderating Items

Sampling the content

Writing items with specifications in mind

Moderating by following a checklist

4.Informal trialling

In native speakers, first

10. Training staff

Handbook

Interviewers

Raters and scorers

9. Writing handbooks for test takers

The rationale for the test

An account of how test was validated

details of test administration

A description of the test

Sample items

Advice on preparing for taking test

An explanation of how test scores are to be interpreted

Training materials

8. Validation

7. Calibration of scales

Collect samples of performance

6. Analysis of results

1. Analysis statistical

reliability

2. Analysis qualitative

Indicators of fauly items

Making of necessary changes

5. Trial the test on a group

No-native speakers similar to those for whom the test is intended