1. Designing Classroom Language Tests
Jacob Luth

2. Questions to Consider What is the purpose of the test?
What are the objectives of the test?
Do my test questions match the purpose and objectives of the test?
How will you decide the test items?
What kind of scoring, grading, or feedback is expected?

3. Types of Test Language Aptitude Tests Proficiency Tests
Placement Tests & Diagnostic Tests
Achievement Tests
Placement Test: Achievement Test

4. Language Aptitude Exams
Category I language: 95 or better[4] (French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish)
Category II language: 100 or better (German, Indonesian)
Category III language: 105 or better (Dari, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and Uzbek)
Category IV language: 110 or better (Modern Standard Arabic, Pashto, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
US Military

5. High Stakes Proficiency Exam

6. Clear Objectives What do you want to test? Ex: I want to test the
Define your objectives.
Example: Students will use the progressive future tense in written discourse

7. Designing Multiple Choice Items
Simple item to create but difficult to do well
Students can guess
Students can cheat --
High Practicality
High Reliability

8. Multiple Choice Exams Design each item for a specific objective
Make the stem as simple as possible
The intended answer is the only correct one

9. Grading How will you score the exam? -- based on your intentions
What is important?

10. Feedback One number (0-5) Sub scores Listening and reading section
Signals for what is correct
Side comments

11. More Feedback Interview or Presentation
Scores for each element on a rubric
A checklist of what elements that need to be included
Essay
Written comments
Rubric
Ongoing and post conferences
Self assessment

12. Design Your Own Quiz!