Techniques in Testing

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Vocabulary

Subskills

Grammar 

Pronunciation Techniques for Testing

Reading

Writing Testing Communicati on Skills

Listening

Vocabulary - Limited Responses • Multiple-choice Completion • Multiple-choice Paraphrase • Simple Completion

Grammar 

Pronunciation

- Limited Responses Limited Responses • Multiple-choice Completion • Simple Completion • Cloze Procedure

• Multiple-choice Hearing Identification • Reading Aloud

Limited Responses Individual testing Direct physical responses can easily be used when you test one students at a time.

Group Testing You can use nonverbal physical responses as well to test the whole class at the same time. E.g.,

It’s four o’clock

It’s five o’clock

It’s six o’clock

Multiple-choice Completion This is good test for the students who can read in foreign language. It makes students depend on context clue sentence meaning. E.g. she quickly ____ her lunch

A. drank B. ate

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C. drove D. slept

The following steps should be taken in writing multiple-choice completion:

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Vocabulary Choice

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Context Preparation

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Distractor Preparation

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Instruction Preparation

Context Preparation

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E.g.,. “I want to paint, too” “All right, Use that ____ over here A. brush

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B. pencil

C. broom

Distractor Preparation 1) The teacher who create their own distractors 2) Use students errors as distractors.

D. spoon

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Make sure the distractors are the same form of word as the correct answer.

Example: She had to help the ____ old man upstairs. A. weak

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B. slowly

C. try

D. wisdom

Also be sure you do not give away to the right answer through grammatical cues.

Example: she needs to get up earlier so she’s buying an ___ clock. A. time

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B. alarm

c. watch

d. bell

Be sure not to include more than one correct answer.

Example: She sent the ___ yesterday A. letter

B. gift

C. food

D. book  

Instruction Preparation

The instructions for your test should be brief, so students should not have spent a lot of time in reading them and should be clear. Example: If you used multiple choice in class, the instruction can be very short: “circle the letter of the right answer” or “circle the letter of the word that best completes each sentence”.

Multiple-choice Paraphrase In the multiple choice paraphrase test is to test the students’ understanding about vocabulary through to choose the best synonym or paraphrase of the vocabulary item.

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The following steps should be taken in writing multiple-choice paraphrase:

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Vocabulary Choice

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Distractor Preparation

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Instruction Preparation

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Vocabulary Choice Example: She was irate when she heard about the new plan. A. interested

B. surprised

C. angry

D. sad

But, the students with very little English won’t know synonyms for every many words. However, it can be stated by explaining the meaning. Example: My husband is a pilot. He can ____. A. help sick people

B. make a clothes

C. fly an airplane D. teach students in class

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Distractor Preparation Try to get distractors that are related to subject covered in the sentence. This is particularly

in testing intermediate and advance students. Example; He just hit his shin A. leg

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B. cousin

C. fender

D. fruit

Try avoid pairing a word of opposite meaning with the right answer. Example: He plans to purchase some candy for his sister  A. make

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B. buy

C. sell

D. steal

Try to avoid distractors with the same meaning Example: His remorse was great indeed. A. wealth

B. sadness

C. strength

D. power  

Simple Completion This test is like a fill in missing parts of words that appear in the sentence. This missing parts are usually prefixes or suffix such as ‘un’ unreal or ‘ful’ thankful. 

The following steps should be taken in writing multiple-choice paraphrase:

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Vocabulary Choice

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Distractor Preparation

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Instruction Preparation

Vocabulary choice You can give your students some words of prefix and suffix and they might also know the negative prefix such as “un”. Context preparation Students’ success on the exam will depend in part on your sentence contexts. It is also possible to check students’ knowledge of when not to add a prefix or suffix. Example: 1. My teach___ is very helpful 2. Did she teach___ you anything? For the 1 question, the answer is suffix  – er is required, but for the second question student cannot left empty but put X in the blank. Instruction preparation We might give the following directions; “Complete the words in these sentences, when noting is needed put “X” in the blank”. Blank  left empty will be wrong”

Reading Test

• Limited responses

Reading Test

• Testing Sentence Comprehension • Testing Passage Comprehension

Writing Test

there are various tests that needed to test many kinds of writing tasks.

Limited Response

Free Writing

Writing Test

Dictation

Guided Writing

Listening test

Listening is a tool to evaluate something else, it was also used as a means of evaluating low-level proficiency in grammar and pronounciation, and so on.

• Limited Response • Multiple Choice Appropriate Response • Testing Extended Communication

Speaking Test

how to elicit appropriate speech samples and then how to evaluate these samples

Limited Response Guided Techniques Oral Interview Scoring Procedures