SUMULONG COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE ASSESSMENT

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
S.Y. 2016-2017

Name:______________________________ Yr. & Major:________________

DIRECTIONS: Write true if the statement states fact or false if the statement stated
falsity on the space provided before each number.

_______1 Assessment and evaluation data and results should be communicated.

_______2. A single assessment and evaluation technique should be used.
_______3. We evaluate to find out what the students know.
_______4. Formative evaluation strengthen or improve the object being evaluated.
_______5. Diagnostic test is given at the end of the course or unit of instructions to find out
which student, to what extent has mastered the intended learning outcomes.
_______6. Authenticity is the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given
language test task to the features of a target language task.
_______7. The aim of diagnostic evaluation is to find out the causes of learning
problems and plan to take remedial actions.
_______8. One of the functions of tests is to elicit what’s on students’ mind through the
students’ performances.
_______9. Objective test items are more commonly called constructed response.
_______10. A project or demonstration is an independent work created by the students
or group of students.

DIRECTIONS: Identify whether the statements below define assessment or evaluation.

Write A. for Assessment and E for evaluation.

_____11. It is quantitative

_____12. It is qualitative

_____13. pinpoints specific strengths and weaknesses

_____14. diagnostic and formative, as well as summative

_____15. ranks and sorts individuals within groups

_____16. focuses on the group

_____17. focuses on the individual student

II. DIRECTIONS: Read carefully each questions and encircle the letter of the correct

18. What procedure is based on tests and in learning is a salient part of assessment.
A. assessment B. evaluation C. measurement D. Testing

19. What type of testing yield quantitative data such as attendance, records,
questionnaires, teacher ratings of students?
A. assessment B. evaluation C. measurement D. Testing

20. What type of assessment tool is an informal record of event or behavior observed in
the class?
A. anecdotal record B. Benchmark C. Checklist D. Conference

21. Which among the cardinal criteria for "testing a test": refers to the extent to which a
test measures what it was designed to measure?
A. authenticity B. reliability C. validity D. washback

22. Which refers to the logistical, down-to-earth, administrative issues involved in

making, giving, and scoring an assessment instrument?
A. authenticity B. practicality C. reliability D. washback

23. Which assessment tool is a notebook where student can write spontaneous
response to literature and/or assessment of personal progress?
A. benchmark B. checklist C. conference D. journal

24. What assessment tool is used to measure students’ performance against norms and
can serve as potentially powerful tools?
A. Diagnostic test
B. Performance test
C. portfolio assessment
D. standardized test

25. Which of the following is NOT an attribute of validity?

A. relies as much as possible on empirical evidence
B. involves performance that samples the test's criterion
C. measures irrelevant or "contaminating" variables
D. is supported by a theoretical rationale or argument

26. Which statement is TRUE about reliability?

A. positively influences what and how teachers teach
B. has items that are contextualized rather than isolated
C. considers the time and effort involved for both design and scoring
D. lends itself to consistent application of those rubrics by the scorer

27. All the statement below is true about wash back EXCEPT one, which is it?
A. is more formative in nature than summative
B. offers learners a chance to adequately prepare
C. contains language that is as natural as possible
D. positively influences what and how learners learn

DIRECTIONS. Analyze the situations below and identify the principle of language
assessment applicable to each. Choose your answer from the word pool.

A. authenticity B. practicality C. reliability D. validity E. washback

_____28. Students were given a task and were able to accomplish it within an allotted
time limit.

_____29.A group of students takes a test and show very similar after taking the same
test a few months later
_____30. The teacher gave an examination with sequencing of items that bear
relationship to one another.
_____31. The Civil Service Commission has chosen Antipolo National High School for
their Civil Service Examination since it has enough room and sufficient number of
teachers who will serve as proctor.
_____32. During the periodical examination there were confusion among students
about what exactly they need to do in the modified true or false test.

_____33.The new teacher would like to find out the language proficiency of the
students, yet what she has given is a reading comprehension test.
_____34. The teacher provides the student feedback regarding their anguage
development exercises.
DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions briefly yet meaningfully.
As future educators, why do you think it is necessary to adhere to principles in
constructing examinations?

Prepared by:

MARIA VICTORIA B. VELASCO MEd.