Importance of Testing and Evaluation in Teaching and Learning

This book attempts to look at the importance of classroom assessment and evaluation advantages. A major concern of teaching English language for teachers has been assessing and evaluating student¿s progress during their courses of study as well as their classroom achievements. Testing in education and psychology is an attempt to measure a person¿s knowledge, intelligence, or other characteristics in a systematic way. Testing and evaluation of language skills are very important components of language teaching. Testing becomes an integral part of teaching because it provides significant information or inputs about the growth and achievement of learner¿s difficulties, styles of learning, anxiety levels. Effective teaching and effective testing are the two sides of the same coin. A curriculum is what constitute a total teaching learning programe composed of overall aims, syllabuses, materials, methods and testing in short. It provides a framework of knowledge and capabilities , selected to be appropriate to a particular level. Tests evaluate not only the progress and achievement but also the effectiveness of the teaching material and methods used.