A. Summative D.

Indirect
B. Formative E. Norm-referenced
C. Direct F. Criterion-referenced

Choose the type of assessment that each scenario below most appropriately belongs to.
1. We ask students to perform what we want to test. For example, we talk to students to see if they can
communicate in interactive conversation. C
___________
2. Students’ results in a test are compared with each other’s. The result does not give any information about
an individual information, only a comparison with other students’ performances – from that year and from
other years. ___________
E
3. We test things that give us an indication of the students’ performances. We would find things that give us
an example of how well a student can speak. For example, we know that good speakers tend to use longer
utterances than weak speakers. We would then invent a test in which we measure skills associated with
good speaking, e.g. the average length of a sentence. ___________
D
4. The results of a test tell you about what an individual student can do, and does not compare them with
other students. It describes certain criteria that the student has been able to meet. ___________
F
5. A student is applying for a job which requires the ability to give and answer telephone messages in English.
The employer does not want a fluent English speaker, only someone that can communicate and take notes
of simple messages on the phone. The student takes a suitable course and the final exam tests these skills.
The employer does not need to know if anyone else in the course was better or worse. They simply want
to know what the candidate can do. ___________
F
6. A university wants to restrict entry to its language courses to the applicants who have the best chance of
successfully completing a course. In the past, it has found – perhaps by trial and error – that students who
scored 80% or more in the final school year exams are the candidates most likely to succeed. Therefore,
they offer places to students from school who got 80% in their final exams. F (compare ___________
std perf to a
standard)
7. This is done at the end of a process. In teaching, it might be at the end of a term or a year. In this way, it
is a kind of final assessment, summarizing what has been achieved throughout that course. ___________
A
8. This is done during a process so that it can be changed to make learning and teaching more effective. It
might be feedback that a teacher gets to check how successful learning has been. ___________
B