This reflection paper disseminates the design and implementation of an English placement test for first semester students from different majors. This design was carried out within the framework of a research project in a Colombian public university. The article seeks to scrutinize the stages leading to a test, so that language teachers who embark for the first time on the task of designing placement exams have a model and can anticipate the various vicissitudes of academic and administrative nature that may arise. The conclusions derived from the process of construction and implementation of the test highlight the lack of training and literacy in the area of ​​language testing, as well as the existing tensions between academic expectations and the administration within a university institution.

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哥伦比亚公立大学英语分班考试设计和实施的挑战

这篇反思论文传播了针对不同专业第一学期学生的英语分班考试的设计和实施。该设计是在哥伦比亚公立大学的一个研究项目框架内进行的。这篇文章试图仔细检查导致考试的各个阶段，以便第一次着手设计分班考试任务的语言教师有一个模型，可以预测可能出现的各种学术和行政性质的变迁。从测试的构建和实施过程中得出的结论突出了语言测试领域缺乏培训和素养，以及大学机构内部学术期望与管理之间存在的紧张关系。