Analysis of a test Activity 2

ANALYSIS OF THE TEST

1. What is the purpose of the test?

It mainly tests the skills that are intended to measure directly, that is reading comprehesion by reading, writing by writing, listenign by listening and not indirectly. It also measures the knowledge acquired of the students by activities that involved these skills with vocabulary and rules already taught during the course.

2. Does it represent direct or indirect testing (or a mixture of both)?

It represents a mixture of both.Some activities are discrete and the others are integrative because they require of several elements to answer them, for example, in writing they have to focus on organization of ideas, grammar, punctuation, etc. In the listening and reading exercises they need reading and writing and listening and writing.

3. Are the items discrete point or integrative (or a mixture of both)?

They are objective items because there is only one possible answer and in the others the answers will vary (are subjective).

4. Which items are objective and which are subjective? Can you order the subjective items according to degree of subjectively?

Objectives:

 • Present progressive (5 points)

• Grammar modals (5 points)

• Fill in the gaps (10 points)

Subjective:

5. Is the test norm-referenced or criterion-referenced?

This test is criterion because the marking and the grades will be based on established criteria about the performance of each student and not in the comparison with other students' performance.

6. Does the test measure communicative abilities? Would you describe it as a communicative test? Justify your answers.

It does measure communicative abilities since writing and listening activities (conversations) are integrated in the test.

7. What relationship is there between answer to question 6 and the answers to the other questions?

That it mentions all the skills. In our opinion this is a very well done test since integrates the four skills that need to be evaluated, including all the skills it not only measures student’s aptitudes but also their communicative abilities.

TEAM MEMBERS

Esquivel Suazo Fabiola

Rocha Morelos Josué

Valadez Acosta Leticia