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Vocabulary: common collocations

Question: What's the meaning for "to flunk a test"?
Answer: To fail it disastrously

Question: What's the meaning for "to sit a test"?
Answer: To take a test

Question: What's the meaning for "to pass a test"?
Answer: To cope with it sucessfully

Question: What's the meaning for "to struggle for the test"?
Answer: To have difficulties while passing a test

Question: What's the meaning for "to breeze through a test"
Answer: To pass it with flying colors

Types of tests 1

Question: What is achievement test?
Answer: An achievement test is a test of developed skill or knowledge. The most common type of achievement test is a standardized test developed to measure skills and knowledge learned in a given grade level, usually through planned instruction, such as training or classroom instruction.

Question: What is proficiency test?
Answer: A proficiency test measures a learner's level of language. Proficiency tests are very frequent as the end aim (and motivation) of language learning.

Question: What is a diagnostic test?
Answer: A diagnostic test is a test that helps the teacher and learners identify problems that they have with the language.

Question: What is a placement test?
Answer: a test usually given to a student entering an educational institution to determine specific knowledge or proficiency in various subjects for the purpose of assignment to appropriate courses or classes

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Types of tests 2

Question: What is a direct test?
Answer: A test that actually requires the candidate to demonstrate ability in the skill being sampled. (= a performance test)

Question: What is an indirect test?
Answer: A test that measures the ability or knowledge that underlies the skill we are trying to sample in our test. 

Question: What is a discrete-point test?
Answer: A test where questions are designed to assess particular linguistic points or language skills (listening, speaking, reading or writing)

Question: What is an integrative test?
Answer: A test where questions are designed to assess person's knowledge of language as a whole, not dividing it into discrete points.

Question: What are the two common types of integrative tests?
Answer: Cloze-test and dictation

Types of tests 3

Question: What is an objective test?
Answer: A test where each question demandsone answer that is considered to be the right one

Question: What is a subjective test?
Answer: A test where different answers to each questions are possible

Question: What does a norm-referenced test stand for?
Answer: A standardized test that is designed to compare and rank test takers in relation to one another. Norm-referenced tests report whether test takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average student.

Question: What does a criterion referenced test stand for?
Answer: A criterion-referenced test is a style of test which uses testscores to generate a statement about the behavior that can be expected of a person with that score. Most tests and quizzes that are written by school teachers can be considered criterion-referenced tests.

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Test criteria

Question: How do we judge about VALIDITY of a test?
Answer: The content of a valid test coincides with the goal set.

Question: How can we judge about reliability of a test?
Answer: There is no ambiguity in its questions

Question: How can we judge about the practicality of a test?
Answer: A test is easy to administrate for a teacher

Question: What does "doability" of a test mean?
Answer: It means that a test is not too difficult for students to take

Question: How can we judge about clarity of a test?
Answer: The instructionsto each item are clear, examples are provided.