Objectivity In Designing Efl Testing Items

Chances are that some of our strongest childhood and adolescent memories include test taking in school. Language testing, as a measure of evaluation system, is an important part of ELT, as it is strongly held that testing is an effective means of checking syllabus implementation and evaluating teaching quality. Still, getting such valuable data about the teaching/learning process depends largely on the effectiveness of the suggested tests for this purpose. The present paper discusses the importance of selecting objective test-items, and how to construct them by analyzing some of the frequently used test formats in language teaching. Objective test items include items with the following formats: true-false, matching, multiple-choice, and completion or short answer.