Test

Assessment is the process of documenting, or measure learners knowledge

and skills, to see what they know, understand and are able to do.
Assessment is very important to tracking progress, planning next steps and
reporting/informing.

Test: It is a method of measuring a persons ability in a given domain.

Reasons for testing

One of the most important reasons is to find out how well the students have
acquired the language, areas and skills that have just been taught

Rules of designing tests:

Before designing the test, we have in mind:

The context: 7th Grade (primary school- EGB3)

The Time duration: The test should be given in 80

The English level: for beginner level

The kind of assessment:

It is a Summative Assessment because its aim is to measure or evaluate student

learning at the end of a course or unit

It is formal: the excurses are designed to check skills and knowledge

What we decide it to include or test:

Present Simple/has got

Daily routines
Type of testing:

A progress or achievement test: it is designed to measure learners language

and skill progress in relation to the syllabus they have been following.

Test item:

Indirect: it measures a sts knowledge and ability, their receptive and

productive skills through more controlled items. They are quicker to
designed, easier to mark and produce greater scorer reliability

-MCQ 8multiple choice)

-grammar transformation and paraphrase (re-write sentences)

-sentences re-ordering

Marks:

We decide to give in each section 1 mark for each of ten sentences.

Each correct answer scores one point each.

N of questions: 49

Grade: students have to score 49 out of 49 points (49/49=100%) A+

A+ 100 B+ 87-89 C+ 77-79 D+ 67-69

What is a good test?

A test must be: practical, valid, and reliable

Practical: it must be fairly straight-forward to administer (time, scoring

/marking)

Validity: it tests what it is supposed to test. It is not valid when a test

requires knowledge about a subject that is unknown for the ss

o Face Validity: to test what the ss have learned.

 o Content Validity: to test what the teacher has taught and the way
he/she did it (simple of the teaching contents)

o Construct Validity: it deals with social linguistics (vocabulary and

competence)

Reliability: a test is reliable when:

It has clear instructions

It restricts the scope for variety in the answers,
It makes sure that test conditions remain constant