Analysis of Test:

1.-What is the purpose of the test?

This example is based in an English course test for the 5th grade (bimestrial test) in "Instituto Paula Montal". Because it´s purpose is to realize how successfully individual students have been in achieving the objectives of the unit in a certain period of time, we considered this example as an "Achievement test".

2.-Does it represent direct or indirect testing (or a mixture of both)?

This test represents an indirect testing, for the reason that it does not measure only a single skill, otherwise it measures the grammatical abilities reached during the unit.

3.- Are the items discrete points or interrogative (or a mixture of both)?

Within this test items are considered discrete points because they evaluate some particular grammatical elements at a time (wh question words, the adverbs, indefinite pronouns, etc)

4.- Which items are objective, and which are subjective? Can you order the subjective items according to degree or subjectivity?

The part IV of the test is the more subjective, because the student has to define the word with his own words, and also to provide an example, and even though the student has to write some characteristics of the words to give the right meaning of them, the way students express their ideas will be different. Then, the part II of the test is the one that follows in subjectivity, because it is about constructing sentences. And, the part I and the part III are objective because they only admit one correct answer.

5.- Is the test norm-referenced or criterion-referenced?

Criterion-referenced test because it evaluates individually each student, and the student who performance successfully will “pass” and the ones who don’t will “fail”.

6.- Does the test measure communicative abilities? Would you describe it as a communicative test? Justify your answers

Because it evaluates grammar and students are not asked to demonstrate their communicative skills in this test, it cannot be contemplated as a communicative test.

7.- What relationship there is between the answers to question 6 and the answer to the other questions?

In this test there is no such relationship because it focuses in grammar and leaves out the communicative competence.