3.2 To analyze a language test

Test being analyzed: Test #2

1-What is the purpose of the test?  To know if the students can use the knowledge they acquired during their classes.

2-Does it represent direct or indirect testing? Direct Testing.

3-Are the items discrete point or interrogative? Most of the activities are discrete point, including just some interrogative ones.

4-Which items are objective and which are subjective? Most of them are totally objective, just including a writing exercise and a grammar one with different answers.

5-Is the test norm referenced or criterion based referenced? Criterion based

6-Does the test measure communicative abilities? Would you describe it as a communicative tests? It is focused on reading and writing communicatively, specially exercise VI.

7-What relationship is there between the answers to question 6 and the answers to the other questions? They use all the knowledge that they are supposed to have in exercises 1-5 in an objective way, then in exercise 6 the student uses the language subjectively. It includes direct testing and interrogative points, using subjective exercises. Thus, it is communicative.