Chap 3 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

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

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.