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    1) The document discusses the key stages in test construction: planning, design, and development. 2) In the planning stage, test developers must determine the test goal, format, and possible tasks. 3) The design stage involves collecting test materials, writing draft questions, evaluating the draft, and rewriting. 4) Development consists of piloting the test with sample test-takers, analyzing the results, and revising the final test accordingly.

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    1) The document discusses the key stages in test construction: planning, design, and development. 2) In the planning stage, test developers must determine the test goal, format, and possible tasks. 3) The design stage involves collecting test materials, writing draft questions, evaluating the draft, and rewriting. 4) Development consists of piloting the test with sample test-takers, analyzing the results, and revising the final test accordingly.

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    1) The document discusses the key stages in test construction: planning, design, and development. 2) In the planning stage, test developers must determine the test goal, format, and possible tasks. 3) The design stage involves collecting test materials, writing draft questions, evaluating the draft, and rewriting. 4) Development consists of piloting the test with sample test-takers, analyzing the results, and revising the final test accordingly.

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    Test Construction

    by Maria Lavella Torregosa


    • Requires:
    • Decision about the nature of the item or
    question to which we ask students to
    respond
    • How we will score the item
    • The skill we purport to test

    The Mechanics of Test


    Construction
    • Is a specific task test takers are asked to
    perform
    • Can assess one or more points or
    objectives and the actual item itself may
    take on a different constellation depending
    on the context.

    What are Test Items?


    • The language skills that test include the
    • more receptive skills on a continuum –
    listening and reading, and
    • More productive skills – speaking and
    writing.
    • Nonverbal skills – gesturing ( both receptive
    and productive)

    The Skill Tested and the


    Intellectual Skills Needed
    • Require the domains of learning as identified in
    Bloom’s Revised Cognitive Taxonomy:

    • Knowledge
    • Comprehension
    • Application
    • Analysis
    • Evaluation
    • Synthesis

    The Skill Tested and the


    Intellectual Skills Needed
    Four Phases:

    • Preparation Phase
    • Assessment Phase
    • Evaluation Phase
    • Reflection Phase

    Phases of Evaluation
    Preparation
    • Teachers decide what is to be evaluated, the
    type of evaluation to be used , the criteria
    upon which student learning outcomes will be
    judged, and the most appropriate assessment
    techniques for gathering information on
    student progress.

    Phases of Evaluation
    Assessment Phase
    • Teachers select appropriate tools and
    techniques, then collect and collate information
    on student progress.
    • Teachers must determine where, when, and
    how assessments will be conducted, and
    students must be consulted and informed.

    Phases of Evaluation
    Evaluate Phase
    • Teachers interpret the assessment
    information and make judgments about
    student progress.
    • Students are encouraged to monitor their
    own learning by evaluating their
    achievements on a regular basis.

    Phases of Evaluation
    Reflection Phase
    • Allows teachers to consider the extent to
    which the previous phases in the
    evaluation process have been successful.
    • Teachers evaluate the utility, equity, and
    appropriateness of the assessment
    techniques used.

    Phases of Evaluation
    1) Planning
    Essentials:
    a. Goal
    b. Format
    c. Tasks

    Stages of Test Construction


    1. Goal
    -test’s goal is a vital step in the development process. If
    the goal is assigning students to a level before a course
    begins, rather than evaluating them afterwards, your
    test design will reflect this.
    2. Format
    - the test developer will have to consider a few
    format – related dilemmas, such as paper- based test versus
    digital one.

    Planning
    3. Tasks
    there are a myriad of possible test
    tasks, all of which can be used in different
    formats for different levels

    Planning
    2. Design

    a. Collecting testing material


    Collecting material with an appropriate degree of
    situational and/ or interactional authenticity.
    Appear both meaningful and realistic to each testee
    b. Writing a draft version
    This draft will often contain more questions and
    items than are taken down to the final test version.

    Stages of Test Construction


    c. Evaluating the draft version
    - the team members that were not involved in
    writing the draft version have a close look at the test
    and decide which questions will be omitted, which
    items need further clarification
    d. Rewriting the draft version
    - based on the observations and suggestions
    made by the reviewers, the draft version is rewritten
    and refined until the whole team is happy with the
    test.

    Design
    3. Development
    a. Piloting
    - the test is distributed among a group of
    representative end users in the same settings and
    circumstances as the live test.
    - by analyzing the results from this piloting
    quantitatively and/ or qualitatively the validity and
    reliability of the test can be determined and refined.
    a. Revising
    - based on the results from the piloting and the
    test analysis, the final test will be composed.

    Stages of Test Construction

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