Testing - AMT - Chapter 8 Flashcards

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What are test techniques?

A

means of eliciting behaviour from candidates that tell about language abilities

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Need for test techniques

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Beneficial Washback
Elicit Behavior:
- Indicator of ability (Reliable+Valid)
- Scored Reliably

  • Economic of time/effort
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Multiple choice items include

(elements)

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  • Stem
  • Options
  • Correct options
  • Distractors
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MC advantages

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  • Perfectly reliable
  • Rapid + Economical
  • Poss. More items (shorter) = +reliable
  • Test Receptive Skills w/o produced written or spoken lang. = +validity
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Why are MC reliable?

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  • Objective (get right answer or not)
  • More items (Ss has more time)
  • Test only receptive skills
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6
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MC bad indicator of Grammar Knowledge

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Choose right answer ≠ Ability use Gramm. Structure

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Mulltiple Choice Questions Disadvantages

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  • Gap (b/w)knowledge/use
  • Guessing + Cheating
  • No plausible Distractors
  • Hard to create (statistics)
  • Practice MC do not improve Lang. Ability
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8
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Short-Answer mostly used to test…

A

Listening and Reading

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9
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Short-Answer

Avdvantages (over MC)

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  • less guessing/cheating
  • no distractors need
  • easier to write items
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Short-Answer

Disavdvantages (over MC)

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  • Responses take longer
  • Production of Language needed
  • Scoring if Judgement –rel. –val.
  • Scoring takes longer
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How to improve reliability and validity of Short-Answer Items

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Response:

  • Unique
  • Found in text (or simple lang. required)
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12
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Short Answer Items in Serious Language Testing?

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  • Yes
  • Only avoid Short-Answers in Large Scale situations
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13
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How to improve this Short-Answer Question?

  • Why did Hannibal enjoy eating brain so much?
A

Make it shorter to answer (less language use)

  • i.e. Use Gap Filling items
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Gap filling items

  • Work well with
A
  • (read/list) Missing words in Text or frequent
  • (voc/gram) continuous = only one gap
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15
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Gap filling items

  • Bad Grammar test Use
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  • +than1 word in gap
  • various possible responses
  • +than1 gap
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