Effective Testing and Assessment in Education

Effective Testing and Assessment in Education

The paper details developing a writing test and evaluating its validity, reliability, and practicality. This is a group work of partners of a designed short test that is relevant to ELI context on writing skills. The test has been evaluated in the light of principles of language assessment. The paper first reviewed the literature on how to assess the writing skills and techniques of testing. Furthermore, the literature review examined the principles of language assessment which included content validity, construct validity, inter-rater reliability, and practicality. Additionally, the literature on test specifications was reviewed and how they are related to validity,…