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Evaluation Terminology
A lot of the terminology we use to describe our assessment practices is sometimes blury and has to be clearly defined.
The link I suggest is a guide to a description of key assessmnet terminology. The authors of the list intend to describe current educational assessment practices and establish a clear and common understanding of what these terms mean.

Dictation is one of the oldest language teaching activities. It is perhaps for this reason that it has been neglected recently by teachers, claiming that it is too teacher centered, uncommunicative, boring and old fashioned. But is dictation without any merit? Is it really old fashioned and uncommunicative?

Although tests are the dreaded learning part for our students,  they are considered an important teaching  tool. They create competition within the classroom,  provide feedback and give a sense of success to the learners.
What is a test?
A test is a method of measuring a person’s ability or  knowledge  in a given area. It is obviuosly a set of technique or procedures that samples performance but  infers competence and which takes into consideration the testee’s previous experience. Some fundamental characteristics of a test are the following:

It is a measuring of ability …