1. FCE 3500 Testing and Evaluation (TESL)

2. Immediate References  Module (Sabariah Md. Rashid)  Essentials of Language Testing – Revised Edition (Arshad Abd. Samad)  Students expected to refer to other books/ resources in language testing.

3.  Things you should know and will be assessed on during the mid semester exam

4. Topics/Issues/Questions  What are tests? Definition of a test.  How are tests different from assessments and measurements?  What makes up a test? Component parts of a test.  What are the purposes and objectives of tests?  How do we construct tests?

5.  Terminology in testing – criterion referenced and norm referenced; integrative and discrete point; objective and subjective; formative and summative; direct and indirect; speeded and power tests.  What are authentic and performance tests?  What type of language tests are there?  Constructing objective and subjective tests  Components of the objective test

6.  Grading essays  Analytical, Impressionistic and Objective scoring  Advantages and limitations of essays and objective tests  Cloze test, its variants and benefits/ limitations  Dictation, its variants and benefits/ limitations  Tests of oral ability