Language Testing

Christinelly Marsheline LotulungDyah Chandra Sukmawati DewiWinny Nurbayti

Introduction

• What is test?• What is the important of test?

Tests as tools of power

• Based on shohamytests are used to manipulate educational systems and to decided the personal agendas of those in authority.

Tests as tools of power .cont

• Based on BourdieuThe uses of test are:

1.as rites of passage2.socializing the public3.creating a dependency in test-

takers on tests• Test results and economic

provide a means for controlling knowledge

Tests as tools of power .cont

• Based on Tollefsontests represent three significant sources of power:

1.State power bureaucracies2.Discourse power imposition

of tests by unequal individuals3.ideological power right and

wrong

Democratic perspectives on assessment

• BackgroundTest taker should follow the test and the testerOnly the organization who have power will dominate

• SolutionsUse some principle which follow the elements of liberal democracy as defined by Taylor

The principles

Applying