1. ¿What is language assessment?

a) Act of questioning information and making judgments about a language learner's

knowledge of a language and ability to use it.
b) Act of creating information and making judgments about a language learner's
knowledge of a language and ability to use it.
c) Act of collecting information and making judgments about a language learner's
knowledge of a language and ability to use it.

2. Choose a characteristic of “Grammar translation approach and testing”

a) Much vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words.
b) The vocabulary is learned by kids
c) The isolated words can modify the vocabulary

3. What is Assessment for learning in teachers?

a) Planning, modifying and identifying a student’s strengths, weaknesses and needs.
b) A test taken by students before a new unit.
c) Learning assessment provides information and guidance

4. Select one type of assessment.

a) Diagnostic test
b) Multiple choice test
c) Contrastive test

5. What is the purpose of Ipsative Assessment?

a) To help teachers determine what students understand in order to build on the students'
strengths and address their specific needs.
b) It is used to measure how most true and more desirable a statement is.
c) To determine a young child’s readiness for preschool or kindergarten.

6. Select the objective of Formative Assessment.

a) To make program- eligibility or college- admission decisions.
b) To help teachers identify what students know and can do in different domains to
support their students' learning.
c) Help students identify their strengths, weaknesses and target areas that need work.
7. What are the principles of Second Language Assessment?
a) Practicality, Reliability, Validity, Authenticity, Washback
b) Practicality, Validity and Washback
c) Practicality and Washback
8. What is practicality?
a) Refers to the logistical, practical, and administrative issues involved in the process of
constructing, administering, and rating an assessment instrument
b) Refers to assess the students with washback
c) Refers to the administrative issues involved in the process of constructing,
administering, and rating an assessment instrument
9. What is reliability?
a) Reliability refers to whether an assessment instrument gives the same results each
time it is used in the same setting with the same type of subjects
b) Reliability refers to whether an assessment instrument doesn’t give the same results
each time it is used in the same setting with the same type of subjects
c) Reliability refers to whether an assessment instrument is useful
10. What is authenticity?
a) Refers to the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test
task to the features of a target language task.
b) Refers to whether an assessment instrument is useful.
c) Refers to assess the students with washback.
11. Select the correct option for the following statement: “Help teacher determine what
students understand in order to build on the students' strengths and address their specific
needs”, it refers to:
a) Ipsative assessment
b) Diagnostic assessment
c) Summative assessment
12. Select one of the tips/advice, to achieve validity, a test should;
a) Be supported by a theoretical rationale.
b) Contextualizing the test item
c) Offering tasks similar to real-world tasks.
13. Choose the correct answer for the following question. ¿What approach is the result of a
combination of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches?
a) Communicative Approach to Testing
b) The structuralist Approach to testing
c) Integrative Approach to testing
14. Choose the correct option: One the advantages of Ipsative assessment is?
a) To make program- eligibility or college- admission decisions.
b) Measures the progress of a person.
c) Collect evidence of student knowledge, skill or proficiency.

15. What is the summative assessment ?

A. The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an
instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
 B. The goal of summative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing
feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to
improve their learning.
C. Summative assessment assessment is a continuous, low- or no-stakes, responsive
process comprised of practices, methods, and tools that are selected to support all
students in reaching challenging learning goals.
16. What other name is the diagnostic test known?
A. Pre assessment
B. Pre evaluación
C. Diagnostic evaluation
17. What is washback?
A. Washback is the effect that testing has on teaching and learning
B. Is the effect on the process of teaching
C. Si the effect on the process of learning
18. What is written feedback?
A. Exams or assignments that are highly subjective
B. Assignments
C. Exams