Testing - AMT - Chapter 15 Flashcards
1
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Testing Young Learners is Beneficial…
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- Parents know where their children stand in school
- Develop positive attitudes towards assessment
2
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How to help young learners to develop positive attitudes towards assessment
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- make Testing (partof) Assessment (partof) Teaching Prog.
- Unite Testing and Learning
- Feedback immediate & Positive (value maximized sandwiches)
- Comfortable Environment
- Self assessment (monitoring own success - pleasure of success)
3
Q
Testing Young Learners
Particular Demand (Valid&Reliable)
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- Not Long test
- Engage (Stories & Play)
- Visually attractive (pictures unambiguous, check students bckgrnd)
- Task Comfortably handled in First Language
- Social interactions
- if teaching&learning involve tasks integrated (int. tasks, 2+skills, can be in test: NOT for diagnostic though)
4
Q
Testing Young Learners
- DON’T
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- Long Test
- Ambiguous Test
- Unhandleable task in first language
5
Q
Recommendations for Young Learners Techniques
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- Younger Students need many opportunities to practice before
- Not much writing (like 1st Language)
- As Students get Older, Teacher uses more Teen/Adults techniques
6
Q
Young Learners
LISTENING techniques
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- Placing objects/identifying people
- Multiple Choice pictures
- Colour drawing (right colour)
- Information Colour (complete chart with what heard)
7
Q
Young Learners
READING techniques
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- Multiple Choice:
Pictures/Words/Definition
8
Q
Young Learners
WRITING techniques
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- Anagram w/ picture
- Cartoon Story (pictures to write - like storytelling)
- Gap filling w/ pictures (drawing restricted objects)
9
Q
Young Learners
need before testing ORAL ABILITY
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- Warm-up
- Relaxed Environment
10
Q
Young Learners
ORAL ABILITY techniques
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- Straightforward Questions on Child+Family
- Compare 2 elements
- Complete story started (pictures help)
- Elements of a series
- Guess Who (interaction)
