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What are the five test types described by Brown?
1.Language Aptitude Tests
-Measure capacity or general ability to learn a foreign language and ultimate success
Example
: Modern LanguageAptitude Test (MLAT) & Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery (PLAB)
2. Proficiency Tests
---Tests global competence in a language; not limited to any one course, curriculum, or single skill in the language; rather, it tests overall ability
3. Placement Tests
--Place students in particular level
4. Diagnostic Tests
--Diagnose specific aspects of language
5. Achievement Tests
--Should address particular curriculum
What are the four practical tasks for test construction?
1. Assessing Clear, Unambiguous Objectives
2. Drawing up Test Specifications
3. Devising Test tasks
4. Designing Multiple-choice Test items
-- Be careful when designing a MP choice test
Characteristics of multiple choice tests
1. Receptive and selective from a set of responses (a supply)
2. Every MCT has a
stem
which has several
options or alternatives
.
3. The
key
is the correct response while others are
distractors.
Author
Quint105
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45691
Card Set
Chap 3 Brown
Description
Brown Ch. 3
Updated
2010-10-28T17:47:05Z
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