Testing and Evaluation

Testing: Assessment & Evaluation

• Testing for Language Teachers by Arthur Hughes (1989, CUP) 
• Teaching and Testing (pg 1 to 6) 
• Kinds of Test and Testing (pg 9 -­ 21) 
• Validity (pg 22-­28) 
• Reliability (pg 29-­43) 
• Achieving Beneficial Backwash (pg 44-­47) 
• Stages of Test Construction (pg 48-­58) 
• Test techniques and testing overall ability (pg 59­-74) 
• Testing W­S­R­L )pg 75­-140) 
• Testing grammar and vocabulary (pg 141­-151) 
• Test administration (152-­154) 

• Difference between Assessment and Evaluation 
• Defining Good Assessment by Martin Covington 
• Alternative Assessment and Second Language Study: What and Why? by Charles Hancock
• How do you Determine if a Test has Validity, Reliability, Fairness, and Legal Defensibility
• Integrating Testing with Teaching by Herbert Rudman 
• A Case Study ­ IELTS Test 

Washback / Backwash

Review of Washback and its Pedagogical Implications

Handouts - by Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya

• Basic concept of Testing & Evaluation

Rubrics for Assessment

• Rubric: Spoken Skills
• Rubric: Oral Presentation
• Rubric: Written Assignment
• Evaluating Criteria: Written Assignment

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