Тиллар ўҚитиш методикаси ва таълим технологиялари

5. How to write and organise tests
Objective: to help participants explore the basic principles in writing tests
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: Handout 3
Interaction: individual, plenary
Procedure:
 Tell participants that sometimes teachers need to write tests for their pupils themselves. Ask participants if they have written their own tests?
 Explain that in the next stages of the session they will explore how to write or organise a good reliable test and look at some examples of different kinds of questions they could include in their own tests.
 Ask participants to work individually and match the recommendations for writing tests in column A with their explanations in column B in Handout 4.
 Ask participants to compare and discuss their answers in pairs.
 Discuss the answers in plenary.
Answer keys: 1 d, 2 a, 3 e, 4c, 5b
6. Reflection and action planning
Objectives: to help participants to reflect on the activities they practised; to give participants opportunity to think of the things they would like to learn more about; to help participants to decide on the goals for development
Time: 10 minutes
Materials: none
Interaction: individual, pair work, plenary
Procedure:
 Ask them to complete these sentences individually by reflecting on the session:
1) One thing that I found very interesting in the session is …
2) A testing technique that is new for me is …
 Ask them to get into pairs and discuss their answers.
 Summarise the session by establishing that
- At schools we mostly deal with achievement tests because they are based on the course we teach.
- We should test what we teach.
Handout 1
Which language area (grammar, vocabulary, language functions and
pronunciation) is each task testing?
1. Put the words in the appropriate column.
apple cucumber cherry onion potato tomato pear banana carrot orange
Fruit Vegetables
example: apple
2. Write a complete sentence.
I/go/city/visit/brother/last Thursday
3. Draw a line to show the best way of speaking to the people in Column B
A B
Have you got a pen? A stranger
Could I borrow your pen, please? Your teacher
I’m sorry to trouble you, but could I borrow a pen? Your friend
4. Underline the stressed syllables in these words:
Example: doctor
a) engineer
b) artists
c) photographer
Handout 2