Designing a test for literacy materials

Often, you will need to design tests for specific kinds of literacy materials, or to meet specific testing needs.

In these modules, "administering literacy materials tests" refers to

• having people look at or use specific literacy materials and give feedback about them, and
• recording the results of this process.

"Taking literacy materials tests" refers to

• looking at or using materials, and
• giving feedback about them to the person who is administering the test.

The term "testing literacy materials" has not been used in this context because it confuses the issue of who is asking for feedback and who is providing the feedback.

• Determine the goals and objectives for the particular test you are designing.
• Determine what kind of testing procedure would best achieve these goals and objectives.

  See:	Methods of evaluation and testing

• Prepare the test, explaining all procedures and including all forms that will be necessary to administer it.

• Task module: Designing a test for literacy materials
• In task module: Testing and evaluating literacy materials, by Trudy K. Stewart (contributor) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In task module: Evaluating components of a program, by Julia R. Van Dyken (contributor) and Stephen L. Walter (contributor)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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