Testing, Assesing and Teaching

1. Informal Assessment: has diferrent forms like unplanned comments and responses with coaching. For example, "Nice Job"

2. Formal Assessment: are procedures specifically to tap into a storehouse of skills and knowledge. For example, exams.

3. Summative Assessment: aims to measure what the student has grasped and typically occurs at the end of the course. For example, final exams.

4. Norm-Referenced tests

4.1. The test taker´s score is interpreted in relation to a mean (score), median (middle score) and standar deviation (variance of scores).

4.1.1. The purpose is to place the test-taker´s along a mathematical continuum in rank order.

5. Integrative tests

5.1. Several skills at the same time, combination of all abilities to complete a task.

6. Performance-Based Assesment

6.1. It means you might have a difficult time distinguishing between formal and informal assessment.

6.2. *It involves oral production

7. What is a test? is a method for measuring a person´s ability, knowledge, or performance in a given domain.

8. Assesment: ongoing process that encompasess a wider domain.

9. Formative Assessment: evaluates the students in the process of forming their skills while helping them to continue to progress.

10. Criterion-Rederenced tests

10.1. They are designed to give the test taker´s feedback on the form of grades.

11. Discrete Point tests

11.1. Small pieces of the language, one element at a time.

12. Communicative Language Testing

12.1. It is the correspondance between language performance and language use

12.1.1. The students: *performance ability vs competence.