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- Title
Criterion-Referenced Testing of Language Skills.
- Authors
Cartier, Francis A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the effectiveness of criterion-referenced testing of language skills. The author also discusses the more difficult task of applying a few of the concepts of instructional technology to the problem of teaching English as a foreign language. The criterion-referenced test is one of those test that are being used by instructional technologists. This test is describes here contrasting it with the traditional kind of norm-referenced test. The traditional norm-referenced test is designed to produce a normal distribution of student scores. The criterion test, however, is not designed to produce even a range of scores. A criterion test tests every essential behavior, which can be expected from a norm-referenced test. A criterion test requires the student to demonstrate the actual language repair procedures. In grading a criterion test is considered effective that a norm test. The concept of criterion testing requires that each student be given at least some remedial training on any item he missed, even if he got the passing ninety percent.
- Subjects
CRITERION referenced tests; OUTCOME-based education; FOREIGN language education; EDUCATIONAL technology; INSTRUCTIONAL systems; NORM-referenced tests; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; ACHIEVEMENT tests; ENGLISH as a foreign language
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1968, Vol 2, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3585439