Achievement Test Assignment

Through completing this task, I had gained plenty of insights in designing, constructing and using a test in the English as Second Language primary classroom. A test is important in oreder to measure and gauge pupil’s understanding and acquisition of knowledge that had been imparted. A test mainly measures pupil’s skill, ability to perform in either cognitive, psychomotor or affective domain. There are basically four major principles that plays a crucial role in designing and constructing test papers, which are, practicality, validity, authenticity and reliability (Brown, 2004).

For task 2, I am required to design and construct a test or an assessment task based on the language skill that I have focused on. In order to complete task 2, I have used the achievement test and using grammar as my focused skill. According to Brown (2004), achievement test is closely related to classroom lessons, either learning through units, topic or subtopics. The objective of constructing this achievement test is to measure pupil’s understanding on

The reasons for giving a test will help me to determine features such as length, format, level of detail required in answers, and the time frame for returning results to the students. At the same time, I have to maintain consistency between goals for the course, methods of teaching and the tests used to measure achievement of goals. For example, class time emphasizes review and recall of information, then so can the test; if class time emphasizes analysis and synthesis, then the test can also be designed to demonstrate how well students have learned these things. Before I set the test instruments to the students, I should make sure that words that I used in the test describe about expected objectives. For instead, I want to use words like complete or discuss, I have to make sure that I used them consistently and at the same time the students also know what I mean when I use