Types of tests

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This called an alternate-answer test. You can expand it slightly to include aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten, False and Don't know (the answer isn't in the text).
multiple-aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten
This is sometimes called a fixed-response test. Typically, the correct answer must be chosen from three or four alternatives. The 'wrong' items are called the aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten.
structured aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten
In tests of this sort, you give a structure in which to form the answer. aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten sentence items of the sort which require the subject to expand a sentence such as He / come/ my house / yesterday / 9 o'clock into He came to my house at 9 o'clock yesterday are tests of this sort.
aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten response
In these tests, no guidance is given other than the instructions and the learners are free to write or say what they like. A hybrid form of this and a structured response item is one where the subject is given a list of things to aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten in the response.

formal testing

this is what public aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten are but also what end-of-week or end-of-course tests usually are.
formal tests are very often aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten
formal test are usually quite aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten (or appear so)
formal tests often have a set aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten scheme (two marks for this, three for that etc.)

informal testing

happens aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten in classrooms
can be anything from a simple question to a complicated role play
requires the teacher and the learner to aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten rather than assess by recording marks

formative testing

is designed to aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten the learning aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten by telling the teacher what has been learnt well so far and what needs more work
aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten learners on what needs to be mastered
is often quite aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten and done at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of lessons

summative testing

is what happens at the aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten of a process and is designed to discover how well the aidchoicedistractorsendevaluateexaminationsfalsefocusingfreefrequentfrequentlyincludemarkingobjectiveprocessresponseSkeletontargetsTruewritten have been learned.