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Assessment vocab
Language assessment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| placement | This type of assessment is used to assign students to an appropriate program |
| diagnostic | This type of assessment is used to analyse language learning needs |
| formative | This type of assessment is used to monitor progress |
| summative | This type of assessment is used to assess independent performance |
| transparency | The degree to which assessment has been explicitly and clearly defined. |
| practicality | The degree of difficulty of delivery and/or marking of the assessment |
| reliability | The degree to which the same assessment applied in the same circumstance will yield the same result. |
| construct | ____________ validity is the degree to which the test assesses what it claims to assess |
| washback | The influence of tests on teachers |
| content | _______________ validity is the degree to which the test is representative of the language is aims to measure. |
| criterion | __________ validity is the degree to which the test results correlate with other valid measures. |
| ecological | ____________ validity is the degree to which the test result can be generalised to real-world language applications/abilities. |
| construct | an abstract, theoretical concept or idea that an assessment aims to measure. |