It can help learners understand more about the language learning process and to become more independent.

It aims to inform on-going teaching and learning by providing immediate feedback (Cameron 2001) on learners' progress in order to help motivate them.

It is concerned with pupils' learning and performance, and thus provides one type of information that might be used in evaluation.

It formally measures learners' English language performance.

They are often used to report on students' language learning progress and also to evaluate the effectiveness of a program, curriculum, materials, or student placement procedures.

They may be high-stakes, standardized tests developed by an educational body to measure each child English's against a set of standards or expected benchmarks and to compare children´s performances.

Assessment should contribute to the learning process and support both learning and teaching. T/F

It compares a student’s performance to a set of specific criteria of expected performance or learning targets.

Assessment should be congruent with learning suggests that...

Ideally, it should influence both teaching and learning by giving feedback to both teachers and learners. (Cameron 2001)

It concerns how far an assessment assesses what it claims to.

It involves the gathering of information from test scores, assessments, curriculum, objectives, materials, methodology, teachers, classroom observations, interviews, etc.