Follow -up Activity

Read the following statements and decide whether they are true (T) or false (F).

Correct the false statements.

Post your answers to share them with others.

1. in Cloze tests we choose the works to bolank out.

2. We can make a true/false test more challenging by adding athird option.

3. Portafolio assessments can include self-assessment by the learner.

4. we can use information-transfer tasks to test listening skills.

5. Summary writing is an objective assessment activity.

6. Guided wrtiting may test more than one subskill.

7. assessment criteria help us to give fair marks for subjective tests.

8. sentence transformation is a real-life assessment activity.

9. Interviews are challenging because learners can prepare all their answers.

10. Proofreading tests skills that learners can transfer to real life situations.

TKT Practice task 22

For questions 1-7, match the assessment activities with the teachers' comments listed A-H.

There is one extra option which you do not need to use.

Remember to post your answers to share with others.

Assessment activities:

#1 cloze  #2 proofreading   #3 Sequencing

#4 dictation  #5 summary writing

#6 interview  #7 information gap

A) When students act as 'the teacher' and have to find their own mistakes, they learn a lot.

B) It really makes students focus on what the most important information is in a text and how to express it clearly.

C) With just two or three choices, students could guess which option is correct, so I always ask them to explain their answers.

D) I give the students the first paragraph without any missing words, so that they understand the context, and then I take out every seventh word in the rest of the text.

E) It's a good way assessing speaking, but I find it difficult to listen and think about the language and interact with the students at the same time.

F) It focusses on assesing listening, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation, but it;s really dificult to mark.

G) It's easy to mark but, if students get one item in the wrong order, it could make all the other items wrong, too.

H) When partners exchange information, you can assess the speaking skills of both students.