Achieving benefical backwash

What is backwash?

• Backwash is the effect of testing on teaching and learning

• Backwash is the effect of testing on teaching

• Backwash is the effect of testing on learning

• Backwash is a positive effect on teaching and learning

The first principle to achieve beneficial backwash is to test the abilities whose development you want to encourage, that means that...

• You should find a good indirect test that measures students' speaking skills.

• If you want to encourage oral ability, then test oral ability.

• You should test in the most practical way, taking into account costs and subjectivity.

• If you want to encourage oral ability, then test oral comprehension

What happens if the content of a test is highly predictable?

• The teaching and learning are likely to concentrate on what can be predicted

• The teaching and learning are likely to concentrate on the most difficult parts of the test

• The teaching and learning are likely to concentrate on the most enjoyable bits.

• The teaching and learning are likely to concentrate on what makes learners uncomfortable

The fact that the only two kinds of written tasks offered in the Academic version of the IELTS are a 1. description/interpretation of a graph and 2. an essay means that...

• Most people will prepare by doing all kinds of writing to ensure they are ready for the test.

• Most people will prepare by doing fiction and nonfiction writing to ensure they are ready for the test.

• Most people will limit their preparation to those specific types of tasks.

• . Most people will end up hating writing and won't try to do any kind of preparation.

To achieve beneficial backwash, you should test...

• A sample of the full scope of the course

• A unit from the course

• A sample from a restricted area

Make criterion-based tests are useful?

• True

• False

The advantage of using direct testing is:

• Time-consuming

• Increased potential for communicative interactions

• Performance anxiety

How many types of standardlized achievement tests?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

It is good that a test should be _____ and _____ to construct, administer, score and interpret.

• easy

• cheap

• expensive

• convenient

• accuracy

A lack of knowledge may cause________.