Testing terminology: a general quiz

Multiple-choice exercise

Choose the best answer for each question.
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  1. Analytic scoring involves:
    1.   adding up the marks to get an overall picture.
    2.   scoring for an overall impression.
    3.   breaking down the scores to produce a histogram.
    4.   scoring a mark for each component of a task.
  2. Aptitude testing is:
    1.   assessing how well learners will be able to acquire the targets.
    2.   assessing general cognitive ability.
    3.   assessing intelligence.
    4.   assessing communicative success.
  3. Backwash is:
    1.   the affect of teaching on test design.
    2.   the affect of testing on teacher competence.
    3.   the affect of testing on learner performance.
    4.   the effect on the learning / teaching process of a test.
  4. Benchmarking is:
    1.   establishing a set of usable marking criteria.
    2.   the use of a few test scripts to standardise marking.
    3.   the use of one student to compare the performance of others.
    4.   ranking students' performance against a set of criteria.
  5. What is the mean score of 18, 20, 22, 24 and 26?
    1.   25
    2.   22
    3.   21
    4.   23
  6. Achievement tests are:
    1.   tests directly related to a language course designed.
    2.   tests of general ability to learn language.
    3.   tests designed to influence the teaching programme.
    4.   tests to measure what learners know and don't know.
  7. Holistic scoring means:
    1.   judging on the basis of an overall impression.
    2.   adding all the scores together.
    3.   assessing by direct testing.
    4.   marking items independently.
  8. Criterion referencing is:
    1.   measuring performance based on overall communicative success.
    2.   measuring performance against a range of predetermined criteria.
    3.   measuring performance against a benchmarked student.
    4.   choosing the most useful criteria when standardising test markers.
  9. The Cambridge First Certificate examination is a:
    1.   proficiency test.
    2.   achievement test.
    3.   performative test.
    4.   diagnostic test.
  10. Paraphrase test items require the learner to:
    1.   correct what they read or hear.
    2.   summarise what they read or hear.
    3.   re-express what they hear or read in a different form.
    4.   re-express what they hear or read in their own words.
  11. True score refers to:
    1.   the learner's score minus an amount for guessing correctly.
    2.   a theoretical measurement of a learner's score excluding any problems of reliability.
    3.   the score measured as the difference from the mean score of all the test takers.
    4.   the learner's total score without any subjective marking judgments.
  12. Face validity is a measure of:
    1.   how well we can describe what we are testing.
    2.   a subjective judgement of a test's fairness.
    3.   how well a test is designed.
    4.   how well a test actually targets the desired skills.
  13. If 40 out of 100 students get an answer right, that item has a value of 0.4. This is a measure of:
    1.   easiness.
    2.   facility value.
    3.   usefulness.
    4.   standard deviation.
  14. If a test is reliable, this means that:
    1.   the results will be a valid measure of a test-taker's ability in the skill we are testing.
    2.   the test will be objective.
    3.   the test will have a high facility ratio.
    4.   the results will be comparable regardless of where and when the test is taken
  15. Validity is a measure of:
    1.   how the test will parallel results of other tests.
    2.   how fair a test is.
    3.   how well we can describe the abilities we are testing.
    4.   how well a test measures what it is intended to measure.
  16. A multiple-choice test contains:
    1.   a stem and a number of distractors.
    2.   a choice of true or false.
    3.   a rubric and some distractors.
    4.   distractors and a common core question.
  17. What is the guess ratio for a multiple-choice test with 5 possible answers to each question?
    1.   30%
    2.   33%
    3.   25%
    4.   20%
  18. Integrative testing is another description of:
    1.   discrete-point testing.
    2.   holistic testing.
    3.   analytic testing.
    4.   direct testing.
  19. Direct testing differs from discrete-point testing because:
    1.   the former attempts to test the underlying skills while the latter gets the learner to undertake the skill being tested.
    2.   the former gets the learner to undertake the skill being tested, while the latter attempts to test the underlying skills.
  20. Unique answer items have:
    1.   only one possible right answer.
    2.   only true or false answers to select from.
    3.   only three correct answers in a set of four possible ones.
    4.   no equivalents elsewhere in the test.