The aim of this course is: 付o illustrate the power and use of language tests and 付o introduce students to the general purposes of summative and formative methods of measuring second language performance. More particularly, the following issues will be discussed: 付he main characteristics of good educational measures and the procedures followed in planning and constructing a test according to its purpose and according to recent measurement theories; 付he use of tests as an instrument of research through the relevant experimental methods and the appropriate statistical techniques; 付he principles and the methods of test evaluation (item analysis, difficulty level, discrimination level, distractor evaluation etc.); 付he interpretation of raw scores and the interpretation and use of statistical results, and 付he concept of self-evaluation
