Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Assessment
Prepared by:
AS
AFI
LYL
NAZ
Objectivity
Washback Effect
Authenticity
Interpretability
Objectivity
Refers to the ability of
teachers/examiners who mark the
answer scripts.
Objectivity refers to the extent, in
which an examiner examines and
award scores to the same answer
script.
The test have high objectivity when
the examiner is able to give the
same score to the similar answers
Washback Effect
Washback is generally defined as the
influence of testing on teaching and
learning
Washback refers to the extent to which the
introduction and use of a test influences
language teachers and learners to do
things that they would not otherwise do
that promote or inhibit language learning.
Teachers
Prepare lesson
more thoroughly.
Various strategies
in providing
guidance.
Learners
Using the target
language skills
Studying
Learning
Do their homework
Take the subject
being tested more
seriously
Memorizing
Worrying
Cheating
Anxiety
Authenticity
Authenticity is the degree of
correspondence of the characteristics
of a given language test task to the
features of a target language task
(Bachman & Palmer, 1996)
Interpretability
Test interpretation encompasses all
the ways that meaning is assigned to
the scores.
Proper interpretation requires
knowledge about the test, which can
be obtained by studying its manual
and other materials along with
current research literature with
respect to its use