ASSESSMENTS

All assessments are formative.

Norm-referenced tests are designed to give test-takers feedback on lesson objectives.

Achievement tests include tasks that tell the teacher which level the learner should be studying.

Diagnostic tests analyze student master of previously-taught material in a given time period, unit, or lesson.

All formative assessments are summative.

Formative assessments are always informal, whereas summative assessments are formal.

Task-based assessment often relies on the indispensable tool of ___________ to evaluate student mastery.

Norm-referenced test scores are interpreted in relation to a mean, median, and standard deviation.

A test that indicates skills that a "...student needs to develop or that a course should include..." is called:

Teachers should work on creating robust proficiency tests for their classrooms.

Achievement tests have the potential for formative feedback to the learner.

"Strategic competence" in language helps to compensate for breakdowns in communication.

Particularly for young learners, communicative test tasks should not be reflective of authentic tasks.

The role of a proficiency test can be that of a gatekeeper.

A placement test is a diagnostic test.

A test which is used to "...measure learners' ability within a classroom lesson..." is called:

Criterion-referenced tests have true instructional value.

Tests which lead to a "...correspondence between language test performance and language use..." are called:

ASSESSMENT: A test is first a ____________. (p. 3)

The method must be:

Placement tests are standardized and typically limited to multiple-choice questions for efficiency of assessment.

A test which is "...almost always summative and norm-referenced..." is called:

Criterion-referenced tests provide grades specific to the course.

Educators have argued to de-emphasize large-scale standardized tests in favor of __________-based tests.

Performance-based tests involve all of the following except:

A test that indicates "...the point...the student will find material neither too easy nor too difficult..." is called: