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Chapter4 STANDARDIZED TESTING

Standardized tests aim to measure students' knowledge through consistent objectives and criteria across test forms. However, standardized testing has not positively impacted student education. It presupposes certain objectives being measured are comprehensive for all students despite individual differences. Developing a standardized test requires determining its purpose and objectives, designing test specifications and tasks, and ongoing validation studies.

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Chapter4 STANDARDIZED TESTING

Standardized tests aim to measure students' knowledge through consistent objectives and criteria across test forms. However, standardized testing has not positively impacted student education. It presupposes certain objectives being measured are comprehensive for all students despite individual differences. Developing a standardized test requires determining its purpose and objectives, designing test specifications and tasks, and ongoing validation studies.

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It has not had a positive impact on

student education A standardized test presupposes


DISADVANTAGES OF
Standardized testing can be certain standard objectives, or
STANDARDIZED TESTS WHAT IS STANDARDIZATION?
predictable criteria, that are held constant across
one form of the test to another.

Tests of language proficiency 1. Determine the purpose and


presuppose a comprehensive Chapter4 objectives of the test.
STANDARDIZED IANGUAGE'
definition of the specific
PROFICIENCY TESTING STANDARDIZED
competencies that comprise overall
language ability. TESTING
2. Design test specifications.

Standardized tests of overall 3. Design, select, and arrange test


language ability, or proficiency, to tasks/items.
DEVELOPING A STANDARDIZED
examine some of the typical formats FOUR STANDARDIZED
TEST
used in commercially available tests LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTS 4. Make appropriate evaluations of
that proficiency is the only kind of different kinds of items.
test in the field that is standardized.
5. Specify scoring procedures and
reporting formats.

6. Perform ongoing construct


validation studies.

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