Selen+Actual+Test

This is the test:

Some comments:

RUBRICS 1 point s each > 1 point each


 * 1) In general, the lexis you chose seems much more advanced than the description of your students' profile in your testing statement. Words like TIMID, HASTILY, VIGOROUSLY, STEADILY, DARINGLY, UNINTERRUPTEDLY, ABRUPTLY are really C1 or even C2 words, even at recognition level. In your testing statement you describe your students as 'elementary' which is A2 or perhaps B1.
 * 2) Also, the contexts of some sentences (especially in in PART G, seem very advanced (e.g. Q3 - passive; Q4 - dismissed (=fired) Seems incongruous with the profile of the students you described.
 * 3) You give examples, which is good, but you indicate the examples in RED. The only way to copy this is to use a colour copier. That is quite expensive, and therefore not very practical.

PART A - looks okay--what is your particular aim here? Just spelling? Since most adverbs end in LY, a student who knows only that one feature of adverbs can simply add 'LY' to each adjective, and would get 8 out 10 points.

PART B - Matching can be problematic. Drawing lines looks easy, but what if a student makes a mistake? How does he erase only one line and redraw it? Also, if he gets one wrong, he automatically gets another one wrong.

PART C: Questions 2 and 4 have only three words. The SUBJECT and the VERB are obvious, which leaves only one other word to be the ADVERB. Likewise, the transitive verbs in Questions 1, 5 and 8 have an obvious SUBJECT and OBJECT, so this leaves only one other word to be the ADVERB. Question 10 is non-sensical with the definite article+meal. If it was COOKED then it would make sense, as it refers to the one meal.

PART D: A real mine-field here. There are many gaps that could have at least two or three adverbs and make perfect sense. However, in the context of the entire story, there is only one logical answer. But, what if they choose the 'illogical' adverb in one sentence, and follow it with the 'logical' adverb in the next. According to the context, we are not sure whether they really understand either of the adverbs.

STUDENT 1: My friend Tom has NEVER wanted to learn Russian. ALSO, he never had the time until last year. (Not the answer that is best, but here both are logical) STUDENT 2: My friend Tom has NEVER wanted to learn Russian. UNFORTUNATELY, he never had the time until last year. (The second gap is correct, but in the context of the first gap, it would appear incorrect. In other words, do you give STUDENT 1 -- 0 points? 2 points? 1 point? And how would justifty this to the student? What about STUDENT 2? He actually put in the correct adverb in the second blank. Would you give him a point for this? Really, by putting NEVER in the first blank, and then using UNFORTUNATELY in the second, it would seem that he doesn't know how to use either correctly. 0 points?

PART E: Beware the affective domain and cultural bias. What if a student had a pet dog that had been killed in an accident? They might find the question quite distressing. Or, on the other hand, if the student is a very strick Muslim, dogs are viewed with disgust as an 'unclean' animal. He would not really be unhappy about the death of a dog.

PAFT F: You are testing two things her: changing an adjective to an adverb, and the position of an adverb in the sentence. You give two points, so I presume one point for each. Be careful about cross-answers--e.g. in Part C Q5, the spelling of NOISILY is in the sentence, so a clever student can find the correct spelling from one of your other questions.