<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#66cc33;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e4c165b1-681f-48d4-8910-256819b69dd2/310C6A7F-CE18-4082-91CB-5337B32E6ACE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html" href="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html" style="font-size: 11px;">campus.funiber.org:8900</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT color="#000000"> 4.10 Communicative checklist for tests</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">West offers a "Communicative Checklist" for assessing the communicativeness of a language test. Affirmative answers to the following questions serve to indicate how communicative a test really is: </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">1. Does the item assess meaning/content as well as form? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">2. Does the item test integrative rather than discrete-point language? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">3. Are the input texts authentic, or authentic-like? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">4. Does the task give the learner a real-world purpose? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">5. Does the task replicate a real-world task? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">6. Do the speaking/writing tasks require interaction? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">7. Do tasks involve information/opinion/reasoning gaps? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">8. Is fluency tested as well as accuracy? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">9. Are the learners' output texts authentic? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">10. Do the learners know their own roles and those of the audience? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">11. Are these roles they can identify with the real world? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/assements/Assessment_entorno53.html"><FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">12. 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