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CLASSROOM TESTS.

Prof. Verónica pérez

Ifd rocha, feb, 2011.

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Aims of this

part: To reflect upon the value ofregular testing in class andthe importance of testing

particular skills.To reflect upon the

effectiveness of different typesof tests.

To reflect upon the design ofsimple classroom tests.

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SCHEDULE FOR

THIS PART: REVISE SOME THEORETICAL ASPECTS (To

activate schemata or/and clarify concepts )

 ANALISE SOME SAMPLES OF REAL TESTS

Questions and contributions are welcome at any 

part of the delivery !

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DEFINITION: “Summative assessment (or Summative

evaluation) refers to the assessment of the learningand summarizes the development of learners at aparticular time. After a period of work, e.g. a unit fortwo weeks, the learner sits for a test and then theteacher marks the test and assigns a score. The testaims to summarize learning up to that point. Thetest may also be used for diagnostic assessment toidentify any weaknesses and then build on that usingformative assessment.” 

Extracted from Wikipedia, Internet.

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COMPARING: ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING:

 ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING:

Support ongoing studentgrowth

Inform students aboutthemselves

The users are students,teachers and parents.

Teacher´s role: To offerdescriptive feedback tostudents. To involve studentsin assessment.

Document achievement ormastery of standards.

Inform others about students

The users are programmeplanners, supervisors,

students,teachers and parents Teacher´s role: To help

students meet standards. Tointerpret results for parents(reports).

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The value of testing: They tell the teacher  what the student can or

cannot do, how successful her/his teaching has beenand what areas need to be taught/revised in the future.

They tell the students how well they areprogressing and in what aspects they need to

focus attention still.

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When a test is a good test…  It is VALID (content, construction, face)

It is RELIABLE (test/scorer)

It is PRACTICAL (plausible to be administrated)

It has NO NEGATIVE EFFECTS (no negativebackwash)

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 Areas to be tested :LANGUAGE SKILLS

To test what students havelearnt:

GRAMMAR 

 VOCABULARY 

SPELLING

PRONUNCIATION

To find out what students cando:

LISTENING

READING

SPEAKING

 WRITING

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GRAMMAR 

 VOCABULARY 

SPELLING

PRONUNCIATION

LISTENING

READING

SPEAKING

 WRITING

What is the teacher 

trying to test? 

 1. Can students follow directions? 

 2. Can they form the simple past correctly? 

 3. Can they describe their family? 

4. Do they know the parts of the house? 

 5. Can they understand a description of their town? 

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Testing receptive skills:

If the aim is to test reading or listening, studentsshould not be asked to write too much.

The students should not be able to guess the correctanswer without understanding the text.

The questions should be reasonably easy to set a mark.

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TESTING GRAMMAR AND WRITING:

It is easy to test grammar . As there is a definite answer,

marking is easy.

If the test only focuses on grammar, it will tell us very little about the real abilities the student has to expressmeaning .

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MARKING FREE WRITING TESTS: THE MAIN DIFFICULTIES ARE THAT:

The student is likely to make mistakes of different

kind. There is no single correct answer.

RUBRICS 

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1. Watch the corrections of sample 1. How do you think thestudents felt when he saw the corrections? Why?

2. Correct sample 2 in your own way. What score would you give

that student? (out of 20)3. Now, score sample 2 using a set score for ORGANIZATION,PUNCTUATION, CONTENT and VOCABULARY. Did you scoreit exactly the same? What were the differences you found thistime?

4. What was the most formative correction according to thestudent´s point of view?

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THIS IS THE END OF OUR SUMMER

COURSE, THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. Now, there is something I need to ask you… 

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An evaluation of this course! Por favor, responde las siguientes preguntas en

español, incluye las áreas a las que asististe:

(no necesitas incluir tu nombre u otra identificación en

ningún punto de esta evaluación)1. ¿Cuáles eran tus expectativas al inscribirte al curso?

2. ¿Hasta que punto consideras que las mismas secumplieron?

3. ¿Te interesaría volver a participar en otra instanciasimilar? ¿Por qué? ¿Sobre qué temática?

4.  Aportes, preguntas, comentarios, ideas, etc.