Analysis of a Test

Rodriguez Pintle Eric

Test from a second level Italian class

What is the porpuse of the test?

To measure the achivement of students´ knowledge about the first unit of the second level of Italian.  Includes prepositions (preposizioni), past tense (passato prossimo), adverbs (avverbio), future tense (futuro semplice).

Does it represent direct or indirect testing? Or a mixture of boths

A mix of both, since there are activities were is only necessary to change the time of a verb, direct testing is being used. Also, there is a part where the student must write a 80-100 words-letter, here the teacher wants to see the students´ ability to use the present and future tense.

Are the items discrete point or integrative?  Or a mixture of boths

There are some discrete and some integrative. Some questions ask for an spefict tense, and other itmes ask for a combination of all the language knowledge.

Which items are subjective and which are objective? Can you order the subjective according to the degree of subjectivity?

Almost the whole examn is done in an objective way because there is only one correct answer, except the last item, where the student have to write a letter using his imagination. However, the grammar must be correct.

Is the test non-referenced or criterion-referenced?

It can be consider both, because it shows if the classes are working at a same level for all the students, and if the students are ready for the next unit of the course.

Does the test measures communicative abilities? Would you describe it as a communicative test? Justify your words

Since the test determines if a student is or not able to  use the first units´ content, and shows the cmmunicative skills of the students, it is considered a communicative test.

What relation is there between the answers to question 6 and the answers to the other questions?

The first 5 questions deal with types of testing, which means ,  different ways to measure knowledge of a language that invloves reading, writing, reading comprehension, etc. and the 6^th question is about measuring communicative aabilities, and readin, writing, etc. are cmmunicative abilities.