Evaluacion ( Assessment) Esl/Efl

Questions about Assessment, Reading Week 10, divising test tasks
Oscar Colunga

1. What are the factors that we should take in account when devising test task?
• Instructionalobjectives
• The students’ proficiency level
• Instructional activities
• Available testing resources

2. What type of test tasks are recommended when assessingcomprehension skills?
• Close ended tasks

3. How would you describe what a closed-ended task is?
• Close ended tasks include a prompt, stem or elicitation followed by alternativeresponses or answers. Students select their answers from the alternatives that are given. These are what are commonly known as multiple choice questions.

4. What type of knowledge is usually testedby closed- ended task?
• Close ended tasks permit assessment of comprehension skills in both reading and listening.

5. What the characteristics of an open- ended task?
• Inopen ended tasks, the response alternatives are not limited by the examiner or test item, and students are free to give a wide variety of possible responses.

6. When is advisable to use open-ended test task?
• Open ended test tasks are suitable for assessing speaking, listening and other language skills that call for the production or the generation of language.

7. What arethe disadvantages of using open ended task?
• Open ended tasks are by far the most complex tasks to score since students responses are not predictable. A great deal of subjective judgment iscalled for, and, therefore, these tests are sometimes referred to as subjective tests. In order to ensure that scoring is reliable and fair. One must pay a great deal of attention to deciding how toscore those tests before scoring begins.

8. What is the name that usually is given to oral assessment task?
• Limited response

9. What type of test tasks are recommended for...