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A. DEFINITION THE TESTS

Test is a method of measuring a person's abillity knowledge, or performance in a
given domain. A test, or items that requires performance on the part of the test-taker. To
qualify as a test, the method must be explicit and structured: multiple-choice questions
with drescribed correct answers; a writing prompt with a scoring rubric; an oral interview
based on a question script and a checklist of ex

ASSESSMENT AND TEACHING

Assessment is a popular and sometimes misunderstood tcrm in current educational practice.
You might be tempted to think of testing and assessing as synonymous terms, but they are not.
Tests are prepared administrativc proccdures that occur at identifiable times in a curriculum
when learners muster all their faculties to offer peak performance, knowing that their responses
arc being measured and evaluated.
1. Informal and Formal Assessment
On the other hand, formal assessments are exercises or procedures specifically
designed to tap into a storehouse of skills and knowledge. They are systematic, planned
sampling tehniques constructed to give teacher and student an appraisal of studem
achievement. To extend the tennis analogy, formal assessments are the tournament
games that occur periodically in the course of a regimen of practice.
2. Formative and Summative Assessment
Another useful distinction to bear in mind is the function of an assessment: How
is the procedure to be used? two functions are commonly identified in the literature:
formative and summative assessment.
APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TESTING: A BRIEF HISTORY
A brief history of language testing over the past halfcentury will serve as a backdrop to an
understanding of classroom-based testing. Historically, language-testing trends and practices
have followed the shifting sands of reaching methodology (for a description of these trends,
see Brown, Teaching by Principles [hereinafter TBP) , Chapter 2). I

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Armstrong, T. (1994). Assessing reading. Language Assessment Principle and Classroom, 79-113.

Bailey, K. M. (1998). Learning about language assessment . Language Assessment Principle and
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