Which principle refers to whether a test can be administered within reasonable time, cost, and resource constraints?, Authenticity, Practicality, Reliability, Validity, A teacher creates an oral exam that takes 10 minutes per student. However, she has 45 students and only one class period to administer it. Which principle is MOST clearly compromised?, Authenticity, Practicality, Validity, Washback, Which statement best describes reliability?, The assessment produces consistent and dependable results., The assessment resembles real-life language use., The assessment gives students useful feedback., The assessment measures exactly what it intends to measure., During a listening test, students sitting near the window cannot hear the recording because of construction noise outside. Which type of reliability is affected?, Student-related reliability, Rater reliability, Test administration reliability, Content validity, Two teachers evaluate the same speaking performances, but one consistently gives much higher scores than the other. Which problem does this illustrate?, Inter-rater reliability, Intra-rater reliability, Student-related reliability, Test reliability, A teacher grades 40 essays in one sitting. Because she becomes tired, she is much stricter with the last essays than with the first ones. Which problem does this illustrate?, Inter-rater reliability, Intra-rater reliability, Face validity, Test administration reliability, A student performs unusually poorly on an assessment because they are extremely anxious and tired that day. Which source of unreliability does this represent?, Administration reliability, Rater reliability, Student-related reliability, Test reliability, What is the main question associated with validity?, Is the test easy to score?, Does the test measure what it is intended to measure?, Does the test contain real-world tasks?, Do students enjoy taking the test?, Students have spent a unit practicing conversational English through discussions and role-plays. Their final assessment consists entirely of multiple-choice grammar questions. Which aspect of validity is MOST clearly problematic?, Content validity, Concurrent validity, Face validity, Predictive validity, Students believe that an assessment is fair, appropriate, and actually tests what they have learned in the course. This perception is associated with:, Content validity, Face validity, Reliability, Practicality, Which situation would MOST likely increase face validity?, Including tasks students have never seen before, Giving unclear instructions to make students think independently, Using familiar tasks and clear directions, Making the test considerably more difficult than classroom activities, Which assessment task demonstrates the HIGHEST degree of authenticity?, Matching isolated vocabulary words with definitions, Completing 20 disconnected grammar sentences, Writing an email to request information from a hotel, Identifying verbs in ten sentences, According to the principle of authenticity, assessment tasks should:, use isolated language whenever possible., closely approximate real-world language tasks., focus primarily on grammatical accuracy., always be easy to score., After a writing test, the teacher gives students only the mark “5.0” without comments or explanations. Which principle is particularly weak?, Practicality, Authenticity, Reliability, Washback, A teacher notices that students performed poorly on the vocabulary section of a test. She discusses the errors with them and recommends strategies for improving vocabulary learning. This is an example of:, Positive washback, Predictive validity, Inter-rater reliability, Practicality

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