gizem's+actual+test

Here is your ACTUAL TEST which was linked to a different page - STEVE



Gizem. Okay, the draft test looks like it has come along nicely from the original testing statement and blueprint.
 * 1) You need to consider some layout issues in terms of practicality (With a little clever formatting, you should be able to reduce this to two pages, which you can photocopy back-to-back and make it much easier to adminster the test.)
 * 2) Also, for each question, you should do one example so that the students understand clearly what to do. For example, I'm not quite sure how I am supposed to 'correct the errors' in the first Part.
 * 3) Make sure you have a friend try to do the test as a student to check the timing and the instructions. In your blueprint you do mention the points, but you need to include this on the test for the students to see.
 * 4) In Part 2 it seems that sometimes more than one answer could be correct according to the instructions. I'm not sure why you have a gap-fill, as the student has only two choices **-ing form** or **if I + V2**. This is basically like a 'Ture/False' question--the student could just answer each with an -ing form, and have a 50/50 chance in getting the answer correct. This question seems problematic in that it isn't very authentic (all the situations are taken from a context that is not relevant to a student in Guzelyurt) and it seems to be testing at least two things (correct form and register/meaning).
 * 5) Part 3 - 'stronger' in what sense? Also, since there are only two choices, like part 2, a student could just tick all the B answers and have a 50/50 chance of getting the answers right.
 * 6) Part 5: You could phrase the writing topic differently, so that they would have to use modal structures in a more natural context. How will you assess the answers? Difficult sometimes to decide which modal is correct unless you know the author's perspective--you could suggest that they write a dialogue--that would make it clearer that they understand the modals from the interaction between their characters. Also, what is a 'short paragraph"? Four sentences, five sentences? In practical terms, where will they write the paragraph?