TEA12: Questions for Chapter 7 (Hughes)

Here are some questions to guide your reviewing of this chapter. Check with your
co-learners. I'm the last chance but only after looking for help elsewhere.

1. How can you establish the problem (of what and how to test)?
Stating the goal, purpose, abilities to test, typeof scoring, kind of test

2. Explain in detail what "specs" (specifications) are and everything that should be included in
establishing them.
Specifications are the information used for the test and organized in the following areas
The content which includes the knowledge used for the test.
The operations or the tasks that candidates have to be able to carry out
Types of text if there are readig items or if it is a full writing test, addressees of texts or the
kinds of people and styles used to write to them.
The length for the test's items or texts which include reading, listening and writing.
The topics or the the context and information according to suitability for the candidate
the type of test,
the readability, vocabulary and structural range or the extend in which a test-taker can
read grammar and vocabulary used for the test in accordance to its level of proficiency.
Dialect, accent, style. Used for the test must be at least identify and clarified to the
student.
The test's structure, timing, medium/channel, techniques to be usedcriteria levels of
performance and scoring procedures,. How is the exam going to be organized, when is it
going to be applied, what it the level of performance expected of examenees (like accuracy,
appropriacy , range , flexibility, size for answers )

3. What is the process for writing items and moderating them?

Starting from the specifications and nowhere else.

4. Describe the informal trialling process.

5. Compare the "non-native" trialling process with the preceding one.

6. Differentiate the two types of analysis.

7. Discuss "calibration of scales".

8. Appraise validation needed for distinct types of tests.

9.Decide what kinds of handbooks you would need in your context, and what they would
contain.

10. How would you organize a training session in your workplace?

Unlike other sections of this guide, ask your peers for help in this section before asking me.
Some of the preceding points are transparent, but others could use some serious
investigation. If two heads are better than one, imagine the results of twenty some!
Of course there are hundreds of ways of testing which you can look into at a later date, but for
practical purposes we will only concentrate primarily on multiple choice and gap fill.