TESTING Types of Testing and Types of Examination

TESTING Types of Testing and Types of Examination Supervisor: Dr. Ehsan Abdelgadir. . By: Amina Hassan. .

Types of Testing 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Diagnostic Tests. Placement Tests. Progress or Achievement Tests. Proficiency Tests. Criterion - Referenced Tests. Norm Referenced Test. Standardized Test.

Diagnostic Tests A Diagnostic test is a test that is meant to display what the student knows and what s/he does not know. The test can check the students’ knowledge before starting a particular course. Diagnostic tests are supposed to spot the students’ weak and strong points. A diagnostic test is designed to diagnose a particular aspect of a particular language. Examples: word spelling - testing composition.

Placement Tests It is used to place new students in the right class in a school. It is designed to show good a student is in English in relation to a previously agreed system of levels. The placement test should deal exactly with the language skills relevant to those that will be taught during a particular course. Examples: The tests that colleges and universities use to assess college readiness and place students into their initial classes.

Progress or Achievement Tests It is designed to measure students’ language and their skill progress in relation to the syllabus they have been following. This type is directly related to language courses and done during the course. Examples: the Cambridge ESOL.

Proficiency Tests It is designed to measure students’ knowledge and ability in a language. Most students take this type of tests to admit to a foreign university, get a job or obtain some kind of certificate. Examples: Cambridge IELTS and the American TOEFL tests.

Criterion - Referenced Tests The purpose of this kind of testing is to classify students according whether they are able to perform some tasks satisfactorily. Who perform the tasks satisfactorily ‘pass’, those who don’t, ‘fail’. We measure students’ progress in relation to meaningful criteria. Examples: Driving tests.

Norm Referenced Test This kind of testing relates one student’s performance to that of other students. We don’t say that student is capable of doing well in the language but we say the student gained a score that placed him/her in the top five students who have taken the same test.

Standardized Test Standardized test is any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students.

Types of Exams 1. Subjective exams. 2. Objective exams.

Subjective Exams Subjective test is generally a test which needs answers in form of essay, explanation or description. Subjective exam include following items: Short answer and essay. Examples: (Explain- criticize- contrast- Discussenumerate- relate- Compare- Write briefly- summarize. Illustrate- state. )

Objective Exams It doesn’t require judgment on the part of the scorer because scoring here is objective. It won’t change even if the scorer has been changed. Multiple choice test is an example of this kind of tests.

Objective exam include following items: Multiple choice Matching

True/Fals e Fill-in-theblanks

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