Assessment:
appraising or estimating the level or magnitude of some attribute of a person (Mousavi, 2009). An ongoing process that encompasses a wide range of methodological techniques e.g. students responses, comments or trying out new words / structures. A good teacher never ceases to assess students incidental or intended.
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Test:
A method of measuring a persons ability, knowledge, or performance in a given domain. A subset of assessment, a genre of assessment techniques. A prepared administrative procedure which occurs at identifiable times in a curriculum when learners muster all their faculties to offer peak performance, knowing that their responses are being measured and evaluated.
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Test:
A method: an instrument a set of techniques, procedures, or items that requires performance on the par of the test-taker. Measure: a process of quantifying a test-takers performance according to explicit procedures or rules (Bachman, 1990). The measurement of individuals ability, knowledge, or performance / competence.
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Test:
The measurement of a given domain.
Thus, a well-constructed test is an instrument that provides an accurate measure of the test-takers ability within a particular domain.
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Measurement:
The process of quantifying the observed performance of classroom learners. The issue of QUANTITATIVE & QUALITATIVE descriptions of student performance. Quantitative assigning numbers, i.e. rankings and letter grades. Qualitative written descriptions, oral feedback, and other nonquantifiable reports.
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Evaluation:
The interpretation of information. Does not necessarily entail testing; rather, evaluation is involved when the results of a test (or other assessment procedure) are used for decision making (Bachman, 1990). I.O.W. you evaluate when you value the results.
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Evaluation
Language Competence
Organisational Competence
Grammatical Competence Textual Competence
Pragmatic Competence
Illocutionary Competence
Sociolinguistic Competence
- Ideational Functions
-Syntax
- Phonology / Graphology
- Rhetorical Organisation
- Sensitivity to Naturalness
- Cultural References and Figures of Speech