Language assesment

DESIGNING CLASSROOM LANGUAGE TEST TEST TYPES 1. Language Altitude Test A language aptitude test is designed to measure Capacity of general ability to learn aku foreign language and ultimate success in that undertaking. 2. Proficiency Test        A proficiency test is not limited to any one course, Curriculum, or single skill in the language ; rather, it rest overall ability. Proficiency test habede traditionally consisted   of standardized multiple choice items online grammar, vocabulary, Reading comprehension, and aural comprehension. 3. Placement Test        Certain proficiency test can act in the role of placement test, the purpose  of which to place a student into a particulary level or section of a language Curriculum or school.  A placement test usually, but not always, include a sampling of the material to be covered in the various course in a Curriculum. 4. Diagnostic Test        A diagnostic test is designed to diagnose specivied aspect of language. A test in

       PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT  PRACTICALITY An effective test practical this means that it. is not excessively expensive, stay within appropriate time constrains, is relatively easy to administer, and has a scoring/evaluation procedure that is specific and time efficient.       A test that is prohibitively expensive is impractical. A test of language proficiency that takes a student five hours to complete to impractical it consumes more time (and money) than necessary to accomplish its objective. A test that requires individual one on one proctoring is impractical for of group several hundred test takers and only a handful of examiner. A test that takes a few minutes for a student to take and several hours  for an examiner to evaluate is impractical for most classroom situation. A test that can be scored only by computer is impractical if the test takes place a thousand miles away from the nearest computer. The value and quality of a test sometime hinge on such