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TESTING AND EVALUATION

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Teaching for tests

Preparing students for a particular test format

Have fun

The students need to practise certain test types in different ways of having fun with tests and exams.

Do practice test

Diffuse the tension; Making students feel more relaxed about the experience, it means, give to them opportunities to practise taking the test or exam.

Discuss general exam skills

The students need to be able to organise their work so that they can revise effectively

Train for test rubrics

Remind to the students about the importance of reading the rubrics carefully and give chances to practise this

Train for test types

Give to the studdents training to help them approach test items more effectively

Types of test

Portafolio assessments

Students are evaluated based on some of the best pieces of work they produced in a period of time

Proficiency test

Gives a snapshot picture of the knowledge and ability of thr student

Progress test

Have a formative purpose

Are used to measure the needs to be done in the future

Placement test

Measures the leavel of proficiency in a new language

Is a tool used for teacher in order to see what students can and can´t do.

In the conclusion you should have a brief summary of your key points.

Qualities of a good test

Emphasize how you managed to defend your main idea and goals along the essay.

Washback

Good test have a very positive washback effect

The tests have a really powerful effect on wha happens in classrooms

Reliability

Refers to the consistency of the test results

Clear instructions

Validity

is valid only if the test offers as accurate as possible a picture of the skill or ability it is supposed to measure

Content

A test is valid if it tests what it is supposes to test

Approach

Contruct

Transparency

Anyone concerned with the test should have acces to clear steatements

Through

Teachers desing

Tests and take into account

Marking tests characteristics

Strategies to evaluate

Scoring and interacting

Analytic profiles

More than one scorer

Training

They are administered and graded digitally

Other factors

Trialling test

Scoring

Balance

Test content

Future Action

Be clear about what is the next step after the test

Student´s Context

Take into account the time and the studens conditions

Objectives

Be clear with the strengths and waeknesses that studensts need to develop

Feedback

Feedback hellps students to improve in the process

Skill focus test

The young learners test item types

Dragging

Click in apropiate pictures-select

Ticks

Put crosses against pictures

Pictures

Are images related with concepts

Are based on the assesment of the language skills

Writing

Reviews

Newspapers

Compositions

Letters and e-mails

Listening

Completing charts with listening activities

Identify objects

Identify who says what

Identify emotions

Following directions

Filling the missing word

Speaking

Reading aloud

Description

Role play

Contrast and compare

Interviews

Repeating

Reading

Paragraphs summary

Writing descriptions

Multiple choice test

Test item types

The key points are the arguments which will support your thesis. These can be agreeing arguments or disagreeing arguments too, in each case they need to reflect on the main idea.

Some of the are:

Summarising

Put what the students undertand in words

Reordering

Put the words in the right order

Transformation

Rewrite sentences

Gap fill

Complete word or phrases

Multiple choice

They are very common, used to measure vocabulary and grammar

Indirect

Vocabulary

Grammar

Direct

Language tasks

Formative assessment

Recognise the full range of achievement of all learners

Analyse the results and help to the students to do better

Helps to the students progress to the next level

It has an emotional impact

Student´s motivation

Measures the student´s abilities as part as process

Focus on how the students learn

Teachers and students are involeved

Summative assessment

Taking into account how much a candidate knows

State the main idea of the essay. This will be your thesis statement.

Use to measures the product of a student´s learning

In the introduction you should state the ideas what you want to defend along the essay.