Кейс-задача 5

A STANDARDIZED TEST

1. A standardized test or Examination system is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or «standard», manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.

2. Any test in which the same test is given in the same manner to all test takers is a standardized test. Standardized tests need not be high-stakes tests, time-limited tests, or multiple-choice tests. The opposite of a standardized test is a non-standardized test. Non-standardized testing gives significantly different tests to different test takers, or gives the same test under significantly different conditions (e.g., one group is permitted far less time to complete the test than the next group), or evaluates them differently (e.g., the same answer is counted right for one student, but wrong for another student).

3. Standardized tests are perceived as being fairer than non-standardized tests. The consistency also permits more reliable comparison of outcomes across all test takers. The considerations of validity and reliability typically are viewed as essential elements for determining the quality of any standardized test.

1. Содержанию текста соответствует утверждение:

• Non-standardized testing shows more trustworthy results of an each test-taker due to subjective conditions of the test taking procedure.

• The time, test type and test outcomes are no less important for standardized test-takers as for those who do non-standardized tests.

• Consistency in the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations in standardized testing provides more reliable outcomes.

• At non-standardized testing test takers are given to do different kinds of tests under comparatively similar conditions.

2. Завершите утверждение согласно содержанию текста:

The key qualifying criteria of standardized tests are…

• validity and reliability

• objectivity and consistency

• conditions for administering

• consistent scoring procedures

3. Ответьте на вопрос:

What unites standardized tests and non-standardized ones?

• Both of them reveal test-takers’ achievements in a test manner.

• Both of them control test-takers in the same way.

• Both of them are given to test-takers for a certain period of time.

• Both of them are designed for the same purposes.

4. Основной идеей текста является:

• Standardized tests are designed in a standard manner: the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent.

• Standardized tests and non-standardized ones are quite different types of testing, the former being considered to be more reliable due to its educational design purposes.

• Non-standardized tests are of different contents for all test takers as well as time-limited, so all test takers are evaluated in different ways.

• Standardized testing allows getting more reliable comparison of outcomes across all test takers, standardized tests being more favorable among them.