Trawiński 8 – 19.12.11

10.02, 15:00 sala 2 – egzamin

17.02 11:00, sala 104 poprawa

Sprawdzany po słowach kluczach

około 40 pytań

Intake is- the language acquired

Test criteria

Validity

• enlist the skills

• enlist language material to be tested

  • for each item we prepare a task, everything should be included

• don't lower points for misspelling while you test listening

Reliability

• Students of the same knowledge get the same mark

• Clear instructions

• Clear scoring system

• Balanced test –

  • score is equally spread among different skills, don't give too many open questions.

  • No impressionistic scoring (don't score depending whether you like it, it's interesting or not). Teachers given the same composition to check in different parts of a day scored it differently

    • split marking – split all points depending on certain criteria e.g.:

      • content

      • spelling

      • grammar

      • vocabulary

      • organisation
        
        

Practicality

• Instead of creating 2 groups for a test, just mix questions, it's more objective and less time-consuming

Pedagogical Value – test helps ss to learn the material

• they're to motivate ss to study

Tests should be frequent (e.g. Every 3 weeks), ss get used to them, more thinks are tested

If you don't know the answer to multiple choice questions, choose D, about 35% that it's correct

Mistakes connected with testing:

• Testing what's easy to test instead of what's worth testing (grammar instead of communication)

• Testing many skills at the same time, in the same task

• too difficult or too easy tasks

Evaluation

Functions of evaluation

• evaluative – how good are ss

• diagnostic

• pedagogical – motivation

Types of control

• Formative (bieżąca) – more pedagogical

• summative (okresowa) – connected with evaluation

Dużo ocen, częste, któtkie testy

Evaluation mistakes

• punishing ss behaviour with bad marks

• applying different criteria for different ss – halo-effect (uczniów których lubimy pytamy pobierznie, a tych których nie lubimy/ nie znamy pytamy dokładniej)

• Final mark being an average of all marks. Można jedynie stosować średnią ważoną