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Achievement testing
1. What do you know about achievement testing

An Achievement test is an assessment of developed knowledge or skill. 

2. What are examples of achievement tests?

Spelling tests, timed arithmetic tests, and map quizzes are all examples of
achievement tests.

3. Why achievement test is important?

The purpose of achievement testing is to measure some aspect of the intellectual

competence of human beings: what a person has learned to know or to do. Teachers
use achievement tests to measure the attainments of their students. Employers use
achievement tests to measure the competence of prospective employees.

4. What are the three categories of achievement tests?

Achievement tests have generally been categorized as single-subject tests, survey

batteries, or diagnostic tests and further dichotomized as group-or individually
administered tests.

5. What are the 4 types of assessment?

A Guide to Types of Assessment: Diagnostic, Formative, Interim, and Summative.

Communicative testing
1. What is communicative testing?

A communicative test is one which requires the students to complete an authentic task
– in other words, a task which is a realistic reflection of a learner's experiences in the
outside world.

2. What is the aim of communicative approach?

 The Communicative Approach is based on the idea that learning a language
successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning.

3. What are some examples of communication skills?

Active listening, Adapting your communication style to your audience, Friendliness,

Confidence, Giving and receiving feedback.

4. What are the approaches to language testing?

1) essay translation approach (pre-scientific era),

2) psychometric- structuralists approach,
3) integrative approach (pragmatic) and
4) communicative approach.

5. What does communicative competence mean?

Communicative competence is a term in linguistics which refers to a language user's

grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as
social knowledge about how and when to use utterances appropriately.

Competence testing

To : Rika

just to inform you that OSIS meeting for tomorrow Thursday Desember 27, 2020 at
11 a.m. will be cancelled as the chief has to join the English speech contest.

1. Whom is the message addressed to?

a. Rika
b. Adam
c. Helen
d. Aziz

2. " ... will be canceled as the chief has to join the English speech contest."

The closest meaning of the word "canceled" is...

a. Began

b. Worked
 c. Posponed

d. finished

3. Was the meeting canceled? 

a. Rika will join English speech contest

b. Adam will join English speech contest

c. OSIS leader will join English speech contest

d. Aziz will join English speech contest

4. Hidayah: Excuse me.......

Dhimas: Sure. It's in front of the language laboratory.

Hidayah: Thanks.

a. Let me show you the way to the library

b. Can you tell me where the library is

c. Tell me about the library, please

d. Where are you going to

5. Nabila: It's windy......here.

Fahmi: Sure, Bil.

a. Can you go outside

b. Can you open the door

c. Can you close the door

d. Can you close the window

Diagnostic testing

1. What is an example of a diagnostic test?

 Some examples of diagnostic tests include X-rays, biopsies, pregnancy tests, medical
histories, and results from physical examinations.

2. What is a diagnostic test

Diagnostic testing is any approach used to gather clinical information for the purpose of
making clinical decisions (i.e., diagnosis).

3. What are the steps of educational diagnosis?

STEPS AND STAGES IN DIAGNOSTIC TESTING

i) Identifying the students who are having trouble or need help.

ii) Locating the errors or learning difficulties.

iii) Discovering the causal factors of slow learning.

4. What is the purpose of a diagnostic test in education?

Diagnostic tests help to tell the teacher (and the student) how much they know and don't
know about an upcoming topic. This helps to inform the teacher's lesson planning,
learning objectives, and identify areas that may need more or less time spent on.

5. What's the difference between diagnosis and diagnostic?

Diagnostic procedures are the specific tools that the clinicians use to narrow the
diagnostic possibilities. The plural of diagnosis is diagnoses. The verb is to diagnose, and
a person who diagnoses is called a diagnostician.

Integrative testing
1. What is integrative approach in language testing?

This approach involves the testing of language in context and is thus

concerned primarily with meaning and the total communicative effect of
discourse. Integrative tests are concerned with a global view of proficiency.

2. What is integrative test?

The integrative testing of listening, then, is an approach to assessing listening

that demands test takers to integrate knowledge and skills of various types
 (linguistic, and sometimes nonlinguistic as well) to complete a listening test
task.

3. What is discrete point and integrative testing?

Discrete‐point tests sentences where the test takers should show the ability to
use one bit at a time while integrative testing measures the ability to use many
elements and that it necessitates language use and not only knowledge of it.
Oller (1979)

4. Why are cloze and dictation considered integrative test?

Cloze tests were also "highly efficient," being "easy to construct, administer
and score" (Soudek and Soudek 1983:336). Moreover, cloze tests were
"integrative" in that they allowed for measurement of global language skills
rather than discrete points of grammatical or vocabulary knowledge (Oller
1972).

5. What are integrative language skills?

Integrative language skills (e.g., analogies, inferences) Includes an

articulation screening. Interactive, play based tasks using manipulatives, and
simple picture pointing and question- answering formats. There are two to six
items per task.

Perfomance testing
1. What is Performance testing?

A performance test is “a test in which the ability of candidates to perform particular

tasks, usually associated with job or study requirements, is assessed” (Davies et al.,
1999, p. 144).

2. How do language test measure language performance?

Language tests work best when they are designed and developed to measure specific
language skills such as Speaking and Listening, Writing Proficiency, Reading
Comprehension, the ability to Translate text, or the ability to Interpret spoken
language.

3. What is an example of a performance assessment?

Dramatic performances are one kind of collaborative activities that can be used as a
performance-based assessment. Students can create, perform, and/or provide a critical
response. Examples include dance, recital, dramatic enactment.
 4. What are the types of performance assessment?

There are three types of performance-based assessment from which to choose:

products, performances, or process-oriented assessments (McTighe & Ferrara, 1998).
A product refers to something produced by students providing concrete examples of
the application of knowledge.

5. What are performance tasks examples?

These tasks typically yield a tangible product (e.g., graphic display, blog post) or
performance (e.g., oral presentation, debate) that serve as evidence of their
understanding and proficiency. 2. Performance tasks are open-ended and typically do
not yield a single, correct answer.

Progress testing
1. What is progress assessment?

Progress monitoring is used to assess students' academic performance, quantify their

rates of improvement or progress toward goals.

2. What is progress test in English?

Progress Test in English (PTE) is a standardised assessment of pupils' technical

English skills (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and reading comprehension.

3. How do you assess students progress?

Progress monitoring is used to assess students' academic performance, quantify their

rates of improvement or progress toward goals, and determine how they are
responding to instruction.

4. How do you evaluate progress?

1. Find your baseline,

2. Focus the evaluation design,
3. Gather credible evidence,
4. Measure progress on each priority early and often,
5. Justify conclusions,
6. Use the results to improve or modify programs,
7. Communicate results.

5. What is the process involved in progress monitoring?

 The first section outlines steps for conducting progress monitoring, including writing
goals and objectives, making data collection decisions (e.g., tools and schedule),
evaluating and visually representing data, adjusting instruction, and communicating
progress.

Proficiency testing
1. How do you prove proficient in a language?

- Language certificate (the proof of proficiency required by most universities)

- Proof of participation at a completed or currently-attended language course (only

rarely accepted as proof of proficiency)

- Confirmation of registration for a language exam (very rarely accepted as the only
proof of proficiency)

2. How do I pass a proficiency test?

English Proficiency Exam Study Strategies ; Understand the test, Start listening early,
Don't neglect the verbal.

3. What are the different levels of language proficiency?

0-5 Language Proficiency Levels

0 – No Proficiency
1 – Elementary Proficiency
2 – Limited Working Proficiency
3 – Professional Working Proficiency
4 – Full Professional Proficiency
5 – Native / Bilingual Proficiency

4. Which is the easiest English proficiency test?

TOEFL, IELTS, OET, PTE

5. What is basic proficiency in a language?

“Language proficiency is a measurement of how well an individual has mastered a
language. Proficiency is measured in terms of receptive and expressive language
skills, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, and other areas that demonstrate language
abilities”.
Psychometric testing

1. What is psychometric test example?

Psychometric Tests (also known as Aptitude Tests) are a common part of the
job interview process at many companies across the world.

2. How long does a psychometric test take?

How long does a test take? Psychometric tests will usually have a strict time
limit, depending on structure, style and the skills being measured. On average,
each test should last about 20 minutes.

3. What is asked in a psychometric test?

A psychometric test is any activity or assessment that is conducted in order to

evaluate a candidate performance and includes, but is not limited to, skills,
knowledge, abilities, personality traits, attitudes and job/academic potential.

4. What do employers look for in a psychometric test?

Psychometric tests can measure a number of attributes including intelligence,

critical reasoning, motivation and personality profile

5. What Are the Different Types of Psychometric Test?

Numerical reasoning test, Verbal reasoning test, Inductive reasoning test,

Diagrammatic reasoning test, Logical reasoning test, Error checking test.