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Monday, 23 September 2013

Validity, Reliability, Practicality, Backwash/Washback

Everything is pretty much straight forward to me. However, I need to reiterate some of the terms here so I can better remember it.

Concurrent validity: When a student takes almost similar tests at nearly the same time, his/her result will be pretty much the same.

Construct validity: the language competence the test is testing – does the test reflects the language competence it is trying to test? e.g. a teacher wants to test the students’ speaking ability with a grammar worksheet – not appropriate.  


Reliability: reliability is consistency. The test produces consistent result if the same student takes the test on a repeated occasion.

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