1. Designing and making tests
1.1. Assessment criteria
1.1.1. What it is what we're testing as teachers?
1.1.2. It is not good idea test the students with subject-specific knowledge
1.2. Test need to have validity
1.2.1. Test things that students have been learning
1.2.2. Use the same kinds of test and tasks as the same showed in lessons
1.3. Before a test
1.3.1. We need to list exacly what we want to measure and how to do it
1.3.1.1. For example: we can use Sentence reordering if we want to test SYNTAX
1.4. To decide the Balance of items
1.4.1. Integrative ITEMS
1.4.1.1. 4 skills
1.5. Write carefully instructions
1.5.1. Use examples in every question
2. Assessing students
2.1. Students
2.1.1. are often assessed and tested to see how well they have done
2.1.2. how well they are doing or how well they perform in standard (often national) exams.
3. Types of assessment
3.1. FORMATIVE or SUMMATIVE
3.1.1. Formative assessment happens when we test students so that we can help them to do better next time.
3.1.1.1. Summative assessment: when we want to see how well students have done - testing their knowledge at the end of something
3.2. PROFICIENCY TESTS
3.2.1. We spend a lot of teaching time preparing students for these tests.
3.3. INFORMAL ASSESSMENT
3.3.1. We are constantly evaluating our students' progress and abilities so that we can decide what to do next in a lesson
3.4. DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
3.4.1. when we want to know how much they know so that we can decide what to do next
3.5. PLACEMENT TEST
3.5.1. We give students placement tests when they first arrive at a language-teaching institution
3.6. PROGRESS TESTS
3.6.1. To see how students are getting on
3.7. ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
3.7.1. We want to know what they have learnt in ilie past few months - what tl1ey have achieved
3.8. Portfolio assessment , CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
3.8.1. is based on work that the students have done during a course. They keep examples of their work and this forms the basis of our assessment.