Showing posts with label assessment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assessment. Show all posts

Wednesday 19 February 2020

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) 


Washback / Backwash




Handouts - by Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya

Click on the title to view this presentation on Validity, Reliability, Practicality of Test & its Washback Effect:


Saturday 23 November 2013

Remedy for the Challenge of Continuous Assessment in Large Classes


This is the presentation for the National Symposium at Charotar University of Science and Technology CHARUSAT (Gujarat - India) organised by Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management (I2IM) on Technology in ELT Challenges and Remedies on 23 November, 2013.

It discusses importance of ICT in testing and evaluation / assessment. It refers to Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra as well as applications like Moodle, Hotpotatotes, ProProfs, Zoho Quiz, Testmoz etc and then narrows down on Google Docs / forms for online testing and Flubaroo script for auto grading. In live demo, it demonstrates benefits of Google Forms and Flubaroo for online testing and continuous assessment.