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T2 Types and Purposes of Assessment
T2 Types and Purposes of Assessment
Discuss and present various types of tests and assessment tasks students have experienced.
Proficiency Tests Achievement Diagnostic Tests Language Placement Tests
Tests Aptitude (ability)
Tests
Characteristics: Characteristics: Characteristics: Characteristics: Characteristics:
- Summative - Summative - Only focus in - Show only - Formative
- Norm- one feature in a ultimate
referenced course (eg. The performance of
- Results are phonological students in
provided in the features in language
form of single English) course.
score - Elicit - Not able to
- Focus on the information on predict the
construction of what students communicative
language ability need to work on success in
in the future language.
Function: Function: Function: Function: Function:
- To test global - To measure - To diagnose - To measure the - To place a
competence in a learners ability aspects of a general ability student into a
language. within a language that a or potential to particular level
- To test overall classroom student needs learn a foreign or section of a
ability lesson, unit, or to develop. language language
even total (before taking curriculum or
curriculum. the course) and school.
- Get to know ultimate
about the predicted
quality of a success in that
learners undertaking.
performance in - Designed to
subsets of the apply to the
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