Reliability and Validity

Five principles of language assessment include...

• Practicality, comfortability, Validity, Authenticity, and washback

• Practicality, Reliability, Validity, subjectivity, and washback

• Practicality, Reliability, Validity, Authenticity, and washback

• Practicality, Reliability, invalidity, Authenticity, and washback

An evaluation is _____ when the learner's performance matches the objectives and provides important information about learner's knowledge and abilities.

• valid

• authentic

• reliable

• practical

For a CPR Course Assessment, documents such as Instruction to Assessors and Assessment Specifications are given to various assessors to ensure consistency over time and with different candidates.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

This happens when two or more scorers yield inconsistent scores on the same test.

• Inter-rater reliability

• Intra-rater reliability

• Test administration reliability

• face validity

“Consistency of measurement” refers to _______.

• authenticity

• practicality

• reliability

• validity

Loud noise, poor photocopying quality, lengthy tests, etc. may make the test less ______.

• authentic

• practical

• reliable

• valid

Excluding items which do not discriminate well between weaker and strong students can help improve the test _______.

• authenticity

• practicality

• reliability

• validity

Direct testing can make the test more ______.

• consistent

• practical

• reliable

• valid

The extent to which we can interpret a given test score as an indicator of the ability we want to measure refers to _______.

• content validity

• construct validity

• scorer reliability

• test-retest reliability

Refers to the level of consistency of an assessment tool and the degree to which the same results are obtained when the assessment tool is used repeatedly with the same individuals or group.

• Reliability

• Variance

• Validity