Writing Proficiency and Achievement Tests

Teachers of English to speakers of other languages are often confronted with the problem of writing good test items both for the proficiency-type test and the achievement-type test. The technique of writing test items for the achievement test is similar to that for the proficiency test in that both are designed to measure the amount of skill in speaking and writing the language, and the level of listening and reading comprehension of the language. Test items designed to measure the four different types of language skills as well as five different combinations or integration of these skills will be presented in this article. Various presentations of item types are also illustrated, such as the question, statement, sentence completion, short dialog forms, and their combinations. Also the best possible uses will be brought out for each of the different types. Test items can be written for each of the separate language skills as well as their combinations, such as

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  Hubbard C Goodrich•TESOL Quarterly•1977

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