EDUC 4251 - Day 1 Recap

Which one of the following corresponds best to our working definition of 'tests'?

• Specific, time-bound activities/tasks to assess student ability/knowledge in an accurate and reliable manner, typically under controlled conditions.

• A broader cycle of activities to assess student ability, which can be either for improvement (formative) or judgement (summative), and can be informal/formal.

• Activities that have 'low stakes', are used to assess students but not have any commercially consequential outcome for the test-taker.

Which of the following are examples of high stakes language assessments?

• An interview to determine a job applicant's speaking skills.

• An international academic language test to act as proof of proficiency in the target language

• An in-class pop quiz to assess if student's can remember the target vocabulary from the previous lesson

• A reading log where students keep summaries of books they've read as part of an extensive reading programme, for review by the teacher.

From among the following, which would best allow us to differentiate between a well-designed diagnostic and placement test?

• Whether the tests are online or pen & paper

• Whether the tests are harder or easier

• What information is yielded by these tests, and how they are used by educators

• Whether the test involves payment or is free

Which of the following is more typically associated with assessment 'for' learning?

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Formal assessment

• Evaluative assessment

Which of the following best describes 'norm-referenced' assessment interpretation?

• The assessment is interpreted based on how well it helps the learners

• The assessment is interpreted based on how accurately it captures learner diversity

• The assessment is interpreted based on descriptors of what kind of target language output the learner produces

• The assessment is interpreted based on how the learner performs on the test, relative to all other learners taking the same test