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The Importance Of Language Testing And Assessment

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1) Introduction Language testing and assessment, at any levels, is a highly complicated task which should be developed from theoretical and practical grounds. Throughout the history of teaching, learning and assessing, it is obvious that simply using a test does not make it useful. Brown (2004) considers a test as a method or a tool to assess the ability, skills, knowledge or performance of a person in a specified area. The scores are expected to reflect the ability of the test takers. As a result, the quality of a test plays a vital role in measuring test takers’ ability accurately. In terms of linguistics field, according to Brown (2004), a test’s usefulness is determined by looking carefully at practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, and washback (or backwash). This paper is intended to briefly discuss two characteristics of a good test, namely reliability and validity, and to provide practical considerations in evaluating a language test in the light of the aforementioned criteria. 2) Criteria for evaluation 2.1 Reliability In Bachman and Palmer’s model of test usefulness (1996), test reliability refers to the consistency of the test scores irrelevant of testing situation and context. This means the test remains stable and dependable; it should not present different results when it is used in a different ways. Reliablity in this case means that when the test is given to two different groups of students with similar abilities on different days, they get

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