All Types of Language test

Types of Language test Based on the Criteria of Administration.

1.   Selection test

-          Chose the candidate that has fulfilled in the certain condition.

-          The candidate will be accepted or rejected. Ex: SPMB

2. Placement test

      The test just intended to place who tests takes

-          Commonly, it’s giving before the program is begun

-          The objective is to take place the candidate based on the group or the level of their ability.

-          It’s giving if the candidates too much to be in one group.

3. Achievement test

      Is a test which is giving to know how much the material that the students’ have already achieved after joining the learning process/instruction.

4. proficiency test

      Proficiency test is a test to know the ability or proficiency of the participants. Proficiency tests are designed to measure people’s ability in language, regardless of any training they may have had in that language. Ex: TOEFL.

5. Diagnostic test

-          The objective is to know the strength and weaknesses of the students.

-          To know the difficulty study of the students, so the teacher can decide the material or planning that will suppose to do.

6. Try out

      Is a test that normally conducted before the real test is doing.

-          To know weather the real test that giving is suitable with the time allocation option, instruction, etc.). And have a good characteristic such as.

a. Valid

b.      Reliable

c.       Practicality

Types of Language Test Based on the Criteria of Admission-Time/Steps

1. Admission test

            Admission test (entrance test) is the test that held before a program is begun. The objective of the test is to decide whether someone will be accepted or rejected. This test is also used as selecting test. For example: As a guide

2. Formative test

            Formative test is the test that held to know whether or not the program is run a way. It gives to the students or participants in order to plan what is should to do after doing the test.

3.      Summative test

            Summative test is the attempt to summarize students’ learning at some point in time, in the end of the course.

4.      Pre-test

            Pre-test is preliminary test administered to determine a students’ baseline knowledge or preparedness for an educational experience or course of the study.

5.      Post-test

            Post-test is a test given after a lesson or a period of instruction to determine what the students have learned.

Types of Language Test Based on the Criteria of Doing/Answering the Test

1. Written-test

      Written-test is tests that usually do in written. For example, Reading comprehension test and Writing test.

2. Spoken-test

      Spoken test is tests that usually do orally. It usually uses to measure the speaking ability of the students’. For example: testing speaking.

Types of Language Test Based on the number of candidate

1.      Individual Test

The test given to a candidate each candidate gets its own test. This kind of test intent to measure language skill that needs to measure effectively. So that usually this kind of test applied in speaking test which needs to measure it achievement directly. Ex: interview

2.      Group test

The test administered for a certain candidates. The aim of this kind of test is to make the test more efficient in term of time and energy but not only that this kind of test is also good to test speaking ability in term of interaction.

Types of Language Test Based on the way of answering

1.      Essay test

Test that requires candidates to answer questions in writing. Responses can be brief or extensive. Test for recall, ability to apply knowledge of a subject to questions about the subject, rather than ability to choose the least incorrect answer from a menu of options.

2.      Short answer

In a short answer question, the candidate types in a word or phrase in response to a question. The answer could be a word or a phrase, but it must match one of your acceptable answers exactly.

3.      Multiple choices

Test in which students are presented with a question or an incomplete sentences or idea. The students are expected to choose the correct or best answer/completion from a menu of alternatives, Option that consist of a key and destructors.

Types of Language Test Based on the way of scoring

1.      Subjective Test

Test in which the impression or opinion of the scorer determine the score or evaluation of performance.

2.      Objective test

A test for which the scoring procedure is completely specified enabling agreement among different scorers. It means that we can make answer key in advance and the correct answer must be the same with the one in answer key.

Types of Language Test Criterion of Reference Score

1.      Norm reference test.

In held the Norm reference test, interpret to change the rough score become the final score, it can be done based on the level of the average from one group of the candidates that doing the test.

2.      Criterion reference test.

In the Criterion reference test, the result of the final test doesn’t has correlate with the result from the another candidates that do the same test. The final score on the criterion reference test, based on the result of low languages capability level that can be accepted as the standard of language capability.

3.      Mixed both of Norm reference test and Criterion reference test.  

In applying on daily test, result of the final score can’t based only one from two references. There are the final score built by combine both of them.

Types of Language Test Criterion Aspects of Language

1.      Languages Talent tests.

Languages talent test it means to know and measure the talent and ability potentially that someone has for learn languages.

2.      Languages Skill tests.

With languages skill test, we can get information about level of ability by using languages to the process of something. Information that had from the languages skill test it’s about level of real ability at that time. Example languages skill test are reading skill test, speaking skill test, and writing skill test.

3.      Languages Component test.

Languages can be dividing in many components and each component is different. The components are pronunciation, vocabulary and grammatical. In structural approach, teach languages means teach how to mastering the components of languages. Based on this approach, language component can be measured with pronunciation test, vocabulary test and grammatical test.