1. What is the purpose of the test?
To evaluate level 4th students about their reading writing, listening and mainly grammar (There were several exercises to assess grammar)
2. Does it represent direct or indirect testing or a mixture of both?
It represents mainly direct testing because it is assessing the skills by performing them
3. Are the items discrete point, integrated or a mixture of both?
The test included both. The only integrated item was the writing, the others are discrete. They assess one thing in each exercise.
4. Which items are objective, and which are subjective? Can you order the subjective items according to the degree of subjectivity?
The only subjective activity is the paragraph writing. The others are objective. There is only one possible answer.
5. Is the test norm-referenced or criterion referenced?
It is criterion referenced because the exercises are assessed according to some established criteria and they are not assessed to compare the students.
6. Does the test measure communicative abilities? Would you describe it as a communicative test?
In a sense we might say that some exercises look communicative, specially the writing exercise, the reading and listening. However, the grammar ones are very artificial and do not look like a real life activities, they are very mechanical. (Some of you said yes but the answer was not so clear)
7. What relationship is there between the answers to question 6 and the answers to the other questions?
The relationship between answer 6 and the others is that communicative tests tend to include direct testing, the items are integrative and subjective because acts of communication and unpredicted and integrate two or three skills and different types of knowledge
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