Okay, we started combining the information we had and so far it's running smoothly. Thanks to a few books we manage to get extra information about the test we are going to design. Well, here is the two book that we are using:
Language Testing: The Construction and Validation
by Hassan Basri Awang Mat Dahan
and
Language Test Construction and Evaluation
by J.charles Alderson, Caroline Calpham and Dianne Wall
Along the process of designing this test, there are a few factors we feel it’s important to identify before starting to design our test which we listed as below:
(1) The level of the students. (which we had set it as form 4 students)
(2) The tests should only include all the knowledge that is already taught.
(3) Checking whether the questions we set is in our Malaysia’s education syllabus.
The factors have to be carefully plan as it can cause the outcome to be not accurate. The test should be appropriate to the level of the students we are testing and the test should be testing what they have been taught during their lesson. Also, the test should also follow the syllabus which is stated in the Malaysian’s Education system so that we can unify the level of the test. In other words, by doing that we will able to design a test that has the same level for all the students throughout the state.
After that, we had to design the questions for the essay. It’s quite a headache to choose the right question to suits both syllabus and level of students is taking us quite a bit of time as we won’t want to confused the students and cause misleading answer from the students at the same time it have to be one of the aspect in the syllabus. cont...
