With the evergrowing levels of interconnectivity and globalization around the world, the significance of immediate and appropriate modes of communication has been increasing very rapidly in this modern world. It is an undeniable fact that there is a need for a common language to communicate with the present growing commerce and trade between companies from all over the world. With the development of informatization as well as globalization, it is evident that most people all over the world are communicating with the people of other regions in only one internationally recognized language, that is, English. English is the language that is almost used between an agent and an international company. English, being the first world language, is said to be the first global lingua franca and it is the most widely used language in the world in international trade, diplomacy, mass entertainment, international telecommunications and scientific publications as well as publishing newspapers and other books. As English is a lingua franca, most of the native and nonnative speakers of English are using English as their mode of communication in their business matters or business organizations. English has become the fastest increasing language in this modern world and it occupies the status of a commercial language by connecting the East and the West and the North and the South. English language is spread all over the world into almost all the fields such as science, engineering and technology, medicine, trade and commerce, scientific research, education, tourism, internet, banking, business, advertising, film industry, transportation, pharmacy and
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- Test should be used during the studying process because it helps to check on the progress of the students , to see how well they are doing, to see how far they have mastered compared with what they should have learnt, to modify the teaching plan and to give the students motivation to study better Moreover summative test can be used at the end of the course, term or semester to measure what have been achieved and to see how well the students have done
- Test may be used as means to:
+ Give teachers information about where students are at the moment, to help decide what
to teach next
+ Give students information about what they know so that they also have an awareness of what they need to learn or review
+ Assess for some purpose external to current teaching (a final grade for the course, selection)
+ Motivate students to learn or review specific material
+ Providing a clear indication that the class has reached a “station” in learning, such as the end of a unit
+ Get students to make an effort which is likely to lead to better results and a feeling of satisfaction
+ Give students tasks which themselves may actually provide useful review or practice,
as well as testing
+ Provide students with a sense of achievements and progress in their learning
- All the mentioned above leads to a conclusion that how to design a test or what is considered when designing a test is really important
PART II - DEVELOPMENT
1 Designing a test
- Some following stages should be followed when designing a test
+ Stage 1: Preparation
Prepare your test It is a good idea to list in writing all the material that you want your test
to cover: you can then refer back to the list during and after the test-writing to see if you have included all you intended
+ Stage 2: Performance
If possible, administer your test to a class of learners; if not, ask colleagues to try doing it themselves
+ Stage 3: Feedback
Look at how your test was done, and ask the testees how they felt about it
2 Guilines for test preparation
- Validity Check that your items really do test what they are meant to!
Trang 2- Clarity Make sure the instructions for each item are clear They should usually include a sample item and solution
- 'Do-ability' The test should be quite do-able: not too difficult, with no trick questions Ask a colleague to read through it and answer the questions before finalizing
- Marking Decide exactly how you will assess each section of the test, and how much weighting (percentage of the total grade) you will give it Make the marking system as simple as you can, and inform the testees what it is: write in the number of points allotted after the instructions for each question
- Interest Try to go for interesting content and tasks, in order to make the test more motivating for the learners
- Heterogeneity The test should be such that lower-level students can feel that they are able to do a substantial part of the test, while the higher-level ones have a chance to show what they know So include both easy and difficult items, and make one or more of the difficult ones optional
3 Characteristics of a good test:
- Validity: A test is valid if it tests what it is supposed to test/ if it measures accurately what it is intended to measure
A test is valid if it measures a specified ability It is a challenge to find valid test methods to select a crew from a group of athletes Rowing requires a complex set of qualities that qualify someone as a valuable crew member
- Content validity: If constitutes the representative samples of the language/ structures to
be concerned
- Face validity: If it looks as if it measures what is supposed to measure
- Reliability: Test gives consistent result, the same group of students took the same test in different time (length of time), the result almost the same Two groups of students (the same level) took the test, the results would be the same
4 What is considered when designing a test
- Assess the test situation: Remind ourselves of the context: how much time, when,
where, how much time for marking, decide the aims of the test and state the test structure and methodology
- Decide what to test: list what to be included in the test (decision on the content of the
test), decide to include or exclude skills or language items in the test
- Balance the elements: make the decision about how many of each type of items to be
included in the test (the selection of test item types)
- Weight the scores: consider how many marks are given to each section or sections of
the test
- Making the test work: to try individual item or whole test on colleagues or students
alike before administering them to the real candidates (spot problems, discover how long the test takes…)
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+ Validity: really test what they are meant to
+ Clarity: the instructions are clear
+ Do – ability: the students are able to do, not too difficult and have no trick questions
5 Some significant steps when designing a test:
Step 1: Defining Objectives
- Identify a need to measure certain skills or knowledge Once a decision is made to develop a test to accommodate this need, test developers ask some fundamental questions:
Who will take the test and for what purpose?
What skills and/or areas of knowledge should be tested?
How should test takers be able to use their knowledge?
What kinds of questions should be included? How many of each kind?
How long should the test be?
How difficult should the test be?
Step 2: Item Development Committees
The answers for the questions in Step 1 are usually completed with the help of item
- Development committees Responsibilities of these item development committees may include:
- Defining test objectives and specifications
- Helping ensure test questions are unbiased
- Determining test format (e.g., multiple-choice, essay, constructed-response, etc.)
- Considering supplemental test materials
- Reviewing test questions, or test items, written by ETS staff
- Writing test questions
Step 3: Writing and Reviewing Questions
Each test question undergoes numerous reviews and revisions to ensure it is as clear as possible, that it has only one correct answer among the options provided on the test and that it conforms to the style rules used throughout the test Scoring guides for open-ended responses, such as short written answers, essays and oral responses, go through similar reviews
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After the questions have been written and reviewed, many are pretested with a sample group similar to the population to be tested The results enable test developers to determine:
- The difficulty of each question
- If questions are ambiguous or misleading
- If questions should be revised or eliminated
- If incorrect alternative answers should be revised or replaced
Step 5: Detecting and Removing Unfair Questions
To meet the Standards for Quality and Fairness (PDF) guidelines, trained reviewers must carefully inspect each individual test question, the test as a whole and any descriptive or preparatory materials to ensure that language, symbols, words, phrases and content generally regarded as sexist, racist or otherwise inappropriate or offensive to any subgroup of the test-taking population are eliminated
Step 6: Assembling the Test
After the test is assembled, it is reviewed by other specialists, committee members and sometimes other outside experts Each reviewer answers all questions independently and submits a list of correct answers to the test developers The lists are compared with the answer keys to verify that the intended answer is, indeed, the correct answer Any discrepancies are resolved before the test is published
PART III - CONCLUSION
- Even after the test has been administered, statisticians and test developers review to make sure that test questions are working as intended Before final scoring takes place, each question undergoes preliminary statistical analysis and results are reviewed question
by question If a problem is detected, such as the identification of a misleading answer to
a question, corrective action, such as not scoring the question, is taken before final scoring and score reporting takes place
- Tests are also reviewed for reliability Performance on one version of the test should reasonably predict performance on any other version of the test If reliability is high, results will be similar no matter which version a test taker completes
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I Objectives:
Checking the student’s understanding and application into practice from unit
1 to unit 6 of English 7
II Matrix of the test:
SCHOOL YEAR: 2021-2022
ENGLISH 7
Name/ Theme Remembering
(40%)
Understanding (30%)
Apllying (30%)
Total Low level
20%)
High level (10%)
A Listening
I True or false Sentence:4
Point:2.0 Rate: 20%
II Multiple
choice
Sentence: 3, Point:0.75
Sentence: 1 Point:0.25
B Language focus
Multiple choice Sentence: 5,
Point:1.25
Sentence: 2, Point:0.5
Sentence:
1,
Sentence: 12
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Use the verbs
Sentence: 3 Point: 0.75
Sentence: 1 Point:0.25
C Reading
Reading
Comprehension
(Multiple
choice)
Sentence 3, Point: 0.75
Sentence
2, Point: 0.5 Sentence:
10, Point:2.5 Rate: 25%
Reading
Comprehension
(Answer the
questions)
Sentence: 1 Point:0.25
Sentence: 3 Point: 0.75
Sentence
1 Point:
0.25
D Writing
I Rewrite the
sentences
Sentence: 2 Point: 0.5
Sentence:
2 Point: 0.5
Sentence:
2 Point: 0.5
Sentence: 6
số Point:2.5 Rate: 25%
II Write a
paragraph
Point: 4.0
Sentence: 12 Point: 3.0
Sentence:
6Point:
1.5
Sentence:
2 Point: 0.5
Total: sentence
36, point
10, Rate: 100%
III CONTENT OF THE TEST
HAI HAU JUNIOR HIGH
SCHOOL
THE FIRST TERM TEST
ENGLISH 7 SCHOOL YEAR: 2021-2022
PART A: LISTENING (2.0 POINTS)
I Listen then write True ( T) or False (F).Question 0 has been done as an example (1.0 point)
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1 Mi’s Mum is watering the plants in the garden
2 Mi’s Dad is watching TV
3 Mi’s younger brother is in the kitchen
4 Mi’s cousin is watching TV
II Listen then circle letter A, B or C to indicate the correct answer Question 0 has been done as an example (1.0 point)
0 How is Mi’s hobby?
A usual B boring © unusual
1 When did she start her hobby?
A two years ago B three years ago C four years ago
2 Who does she share her hobby with?
A her Dad B her Mom C her friend
3 How is her hobby?
A very difficult B difficult C not difficult
4 What does she do with the bottles?
A make flowers or lamps
B make flower vases
C make flower vases or lamps
PART B: LANGUAGE FOCUS (3.0 POINTS)
I Circle the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences (2.0
points).
1 If you enjoy moving your body to music, your hobby is
A cooking B painting C dancing D collecting
2 He in this city since 2015
A has lived B lived C lives D have lived
3 Watch television and you can protect your eyes
A lots B many C more D less
4 His daughter wants to become a well-known but she has no talent at all
A act B actor C actress D action
5 My friend likes photography, and I like it
A so B too C either D neither
6 There are bottles of mineral water in the fridge
A a B an C some D any
7 Nam wants to lose weight, he began jogging last Sunday
A so B because C or D and
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A How much B How many C How long D How far
II Supply the correct form of the verbs in parentheses (1.0 point).
1 She (visit) _ Hue when she was a child
2 They (buy) _ hundreds of books so far
3 It is interesting (collect) _ tree leaves from different countries
4 I think ten years from now more people (enjoy) _ gardening
PART C: READING (2.5 POINTS)
I Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each blank
(1.25 points)
We need calories or (1) to do the things every day For example, when we walk to school or (2) a bike to school we spend a certain amount of calories and even (3) we sleep, we also use them But how (4) calories should we spend a day to stay in shape? It’s difficult for us to calculate If people want to keep fit, they should remember that everyone should have between 1600 (5) 2500 calories
a day
1 A food B energy C drink D fruit
2 A go B come C ride D get
3 A when B where C why D how
4 A many B much C far D long
5 A but B or C and D so
II Read the following passage and answer the questions below (1.25 points)
Charlie Chaplin was an English actor, director, producer, and composer He is known as the most creative person of the silent-film era Charlie Chaplin's portrayal of the tramp won the hearts of people all over the world
Chaplin was born in London on the 16th of April, 1889 He spent his childhood in poverty and hardship In 1910 he began to perform pantomime in the United States He first appeared on screen in 1914 He created his world-famous character, the Tramp, and
he played this classic role in more than 70 films during his career He also composed background music for most of his films In 1972 Chaplin received an Honorary Academy Award for 'the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century' Chaplin died on the 25th of December, 1977, at his home in Switzerland
Answer the questions:
1 Where was Chaplin born?
_
2 When did he first appear in films?
_
3 How many films did he play the tramp?
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_
5 When did he die?
_
PART D: WRITING ( 2.5 POINTS)
I Rewrite the second sentence so that it stays the similar meaning to the first one
(1.5 points).
1 Her book is not the same as mine
Her book is different _
2 We can get to the art gallery in half an hour
It only takes us
3 Mr Binh started recycling rubbish two years ago
Mr Binh has _
4 Jack enjoys eating Chinese food
Jack is interested
5 This film is more interesting than the one we saw last week
The film
6 Linh thinks playing board games is boring
Linh finds playing _
II Write a letter (60-80 words) to invite a friend to an art exhibition, using the following cues (1.0 point)
- Event: an exhibition of Modern Art.
- Time: at 9 o’clock, Saturday morning.
- Place: Arts center.
- Time to meet: at 8.15
Dear ,
The end./.
IV KEY OF THE TEST
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SCHOOL
THE FIRST TERM TEST
ENGLISH 7 SCHOOL YEAR: 2021-2022
KEY PART A: LISTENING (2.0 POINTS)
I Listen then write True ( T) or False (F) (1.0 point)
- 0.25 point for each correct answer.
II Listen then choose the correct answer (1.0 point)
- 0.25 point for each correct answer.
PART B LANGUAGE FOCUS (3.0 points)
I Circle the correct answer (2.0 points )
- 0.25 point for each correct answer.
II Supply the correct form of the verbs in parentheses (1.0 point)
- 0.25 point for each correct answer.
1 visited 2 have bought 3 to collect 4 will enjoy
PART C: READING (2.5 POINTS)
I Read then choose the best answer A, B, C or D (1.25 points)
- 0.25 point for each correct answer.
II Read the following passage and answer the questions below (1.25 points)
- 0.25 point for each correct answer.
1 Chaplin was born in London / In London
2.He first appeared in films in 1914 / In 1914
3 He played the tramp in more than 70 films / More than 70 films
4 Yes, he is / Yes
5 He died on the 25th of December, 1977 / On the 25th of December, 1977
PART D WRITING (2.5 points)
I Rewrite the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one (1.5 points).
0.25 point for each correct answer.
1 Her book is different from mine
2 It only takes us half an hour to get to the art gallery
3 Mr Binh has recycled rubbish for two years
4 Jack is interested in eating Chinese food