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In this unit, I have studied different methods and strategies for evaluating EFL students' levels of abilities in English. The three methods specified in the chapter for evaluating students' language levels are tutorials, evaluations conducted by the students themselves, and tests. Tutorials can be administered to individual students or to groups of students, and they can be given at the end of a lesson by reviewing the class activities, how well students completed the activities, the learning objectives, and any problems that arose. Evaluations by the students themselves can be administered in the form of a questionnaire or through conversation, and feedback gained during these evaluations can help the teacher to determine whether the balance of elements, pace, and level of lesson plans is appropriate for the needs of the group. Tests can be administered at multiple stages of an EFL course (and even before the course), and include placement tests, diagnostic tests, practice tests, progress tests, and external examinations. Placement tests are typically given before the start of the course, have a multiple choice and spoken component structure, and are used to determine which class a student should be place into based on their English language level. Diagnostic tests are similar to placement tests but cover more components of English language ability and are given at the beginning of the course in order to determine what students already know and what elements they need to learn or to refine. Practice tests are given in preparation for an external examination and mimic the structure and elements of the exam that the students are preparing to take. Progress tests can be used at certain intervals to determine what students have successfully retained and what they have forgotten, and they should cover all four productive and receptive skills along with vocabulary and grammar that has been previously taught. The teacher may refer back to students' progress tests in order to gauge both individual and group progress throughout the course. General external examinations such as the TOEFL, IELTS, and TOEIC are administered by different organizations to test students' abilities to apply language in different realms (as a student in a classroom environment or as an immigrant living and working in a foreign country, for example).
