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Checking and testing learning effectiveness

Many students will want to book a course of lessons and this is a good sales strategy as you will be able to make a rough estimate of when students will be requiring lessons and so enable you to manage your teaching time more effectively.

It can be a motivating for students if they know that there will be some kind of evaluation of their learning at the end of a set period.

You will need to keep a record of what they have been learning and decide whether you will have ongoing assessments and/or an end of period test.

Types of test

Important: make sure that the tests you create actually test what you need them to test. Making tests is relatively easy - it is a lot more difficult to devise the contents of tests than you may think.

Here are a few examples of types of tests used:

Multiple choice tests

True/False

Short answer

Gap fill

Cloze tests

Matching

Dictation

Essays

Completion

Transformation

Picture dictation

Below is an example of a typical multiple-choice test.

1. Some people _____ afraid of dogs

am
is
are
Ø

2. We don't have _____ bread.
Much
many
f ew
little

3. Nancy has _____ unusual last name.
A
An
One
Ø

4. Michiko studies _____ than her
less
few
little
fewer

5. A: _____ CD's are those? B: They're Fred's.brother’s.

whose
who
who’s
where

Gap fill tests

past simple / past continuous

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in brackets.

1 This time last week I (lie) on the beach.

2 I was having a beautiful dream when the alarm (go) off.

3 When the teacher (arrive) all the students stood up.

4 He (see) the accident while he was walking to work.

5 The phone rang while we (have) dinner.

6 When the phone rang, I (get) up to answer it

Complete the questions with past participles of these verbs.

meet do read tell see hear

1 Have you this joke before?

2 Have you ever a Sherlock Holmes book?

3 Have you a film about him?

4 Has anyone you a joke today?

5 Have you ever a detective?

6 Have you your homework?

How to put your quizzes and tests online?

There are several ways to present tests to your students. Here are a few methods.

create in a word document and then onto whiteboard
powerpoint
website
e-mail
chat room
use software

1.Create in a word document and then onto whiteboard

2 Powerpoint

Power point presentations can be displayed on a whiteboard or published to a web page.

webpage http://www.eflonline.co.uk/dipteo/mc1.htm

Email

You can send by attachments to emails and students can simply email back the answers. This is useful for homework assignments in particular but is slow in real time teaching.

Chat room.

Tests can be undertaken in Chat room mode but again is slow and unwieldy.

Software….

There is a wealth of free and commercial software available on the web for test making programmes. Just a few are mentioned below.....

Hot Potato

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licencing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website.

Click on any of the links below to see what can be done with Hot Potatoes.

Beginners dictation exercises JQuiz with images to help comprehension of the situation. Glenys Hanson.

Real English Dictations Get an idea of what the Real English videos are like without having to register.

Real English a lively, attractive site with video clips. Mike Marzio. You need to register, but it's worth it!

What's happened? What happened? A JMatch animation inside a JBC quiz.

Where is the ...? A directions exercise with a map. Agata Zieba-Warcholak.

Monster Mash Close uses the song and a creepy background to work on prepositions. Brian Grover.

Aesop's Fables: The eagle and the kite a JMatch exercise to reconstruct the story. Michael A. Riccioli.

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.htm

Software to make tests

http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/

QuizMaker - MCQ authoring tool

You can use tests created with QuizMaker or ClozeMaker by posting them on your own Personal Web Site. See below for examples and instructions on how to do this. Or you can just save the documents on your own PC and run them from there.

You can create your own cloze tests, quizzes, puzzles and TTS dialogs.

How to create tests with ClozeMaker

How to create and publish tests created with QuizMaker

How to create quizzes and MCQ tests with QuizMaker

How to create TTS dialogs

Create your own crossword puzzles

sCreate a simple quiz with questions and options

Create a quiz with text and questions with multiple choice options Suitable for reading comprehension type activities

http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx

EasyTestMaker
The easy way to make all your tests!

EasyTestMaker is a FREE online test generator to help you create your tests. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

EasyTestMaker automatically generates alternate versions entirely randomized and master answer sheets with a single click! Just click the "Generate Alternate Versions" or "Print Answer Sheet" link when you are done creating your test. It's that easy!

Features: (click the links to learn more)
Multiple Choice	Generate Alternate Versions *PLUS!*
Fill in the blank	Exam Builder *PLUS!*
Matching	Test Duplicator *PLUS!*
Short Answer	Answer Sheets
True and False	Download as Word Document
Bold, Highlight and Italicize
Multiple Sections	Click here to register for FREE!

Easy Test Maker eliminates wasted time spent on formatting. You just add new questions or sections and let Easy Test Maker do the hard work for you. All your tests are saved for easy retrieval. You can make changes or print out additional copies of any test you create.

Click here to register for FREE!

Task - Testing.

Use any of the applications above and create a series of short disgnostic tests for either an elementary or intermediate student. Include at least 4 different types of test. (E.g., one multiple choice, matching, T/F and cloze.)

Then to your tutor