Testing -MT- Chapter 6

Question 1

How to achieve beneficial backwash

Answer 1

• Test Abilities you want to encourage development
• Sample widely + unpredictably
• Use Direct testing
• Make Criterion-Referenced testing
• Base achievement tests on Objectives
• Ensure test understood by students + teachers
• Provide assistance to teachers
• Counting the Cost

Question 2

Test development whose abilities you want to encourage

Answer 2

• obvious & straightfoward matter of content validity
• abilities should be given sufficient weight in relation to other abilities

Question 3

Sample Widely and Unpredictably

Answer 3

• Teachers should prepare students for all part of test, not only one specified

Question 4

Use direct testing

Answer 4

• If we test directly the skill we are interested in fostering,

then practice for the test represents practice in those skills

Question 5

Make testing criterion-referenced

Answer 5

Motivates Students to perform

• If test specifications clear = Students know the degree of success and what to achieve
• They know if tasks performed at criterial level, they will be successful regardless of others

Question 6

Base Achievement on test objectives

Answer 6

• Achievement test based on Objectives rather than textbook-teaching details = truer picture of what achieved

Question 7

Ensure test known and understood by Teachers and Students

Answer 7

Everyone concerned w/ Preparation of test should have available:

• Rationale for the test
• Specifications
• Sample items

Question 8

Provide assistance to teachers

Answer 8

When teachers introduce new test component they are not familiar with.

Question 9

Counting the cost

Answer 9

After validity and reliability = Practicality

Easy and Cheap to:

• Construct
• Administer
• Score
• Interpret