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HOW TO SCORE TESTS???
WRITING SKILL
A. SCORING THE DICTATION TEST
The best way to score a dictation test is to deduct one point
for
each error. It is an accurate, fast, reliable scoring.
For example; you can use 100 points.Add up the number of errors
on each dictation. If no one maes as
many as 100 errors, you can !ust subtract the number of
errors
from 100 for each person"s score.If se#eral students mae more
than 100 errors, you can di#ide the
number of errors on e#ery paper by $. Then subtract this from
100
for their score.
B. FREE WRITING
%any students are inhibited in their writing because their wor
has
been o#ercorrected.
&et"s illustrate' suppose you ha#e been woring to
eliminate
fragments ()*e went home because he +nished his wor-.
tudents could be assigned to write a paragraph on a speci+c
topic,
in class. In grading this short piece of wor, you could gi#e a
score
of 100 / to each paper that was free of fragments (and
perhaps
/ to a paper with one fragment, 0/ to a paper with two,
etc.-
Analytical approach'
%echanic $0/2ocabulary choice $0/3rammar 4 usage 50/6rgani7ation
50/
total 100/
SPEAKING SKILL
6n a speaing test, getting the student to say something
appropriate is
only half the !ob. coring speaing depends on one of two things'
*ow well trained we
are to e#aluate oral communication and what factors we choose
to
e#aluate.
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Teachers with considerable experience and training (particularly
in
linguistics and testing- are more inclined to use holistic
scoring than
teachers without this bacground. *olistic scoring also tends to
be selected when the teacher is inclined
toward e#aluating a wide #ariety of criteria simultaneously
(such as
appropriateness, 8uency, grammar, #ocabulary and
pronunciation-.Illustration'coring on criteria' (comprehension,
pronunciation, grammar and
word order, #ocabulary, and general speed of speech and
sentence
length-.The criteria for grammar and word order follow' points
uses 9nglish with few (if any- noticeable errors of
grammar or word order.
: points in general uses )good 9nglish, but with occasional
grammatical or wordorder errors which do not,howe#er, obscure
meaning (e.g. )I am needing more
9nglish-.
5 points meaning occasionally obscured by grammatical
and
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6n a tenitem test with =uestions on pictures, we might as,
)what"s
happening here? the student loos at the picture of a woman
typing
and simply says, )he"s typing or )A lady is woring @ right
answer.ut when the student responses lie )Bes or )A lady or
)woring
would recei#e no credit.
Chen he answer )A lady, she ee7 woring? it is intelligible.
Therefore,it is fully correct, despite pronunciation and grammar
di>culties.
The scoring system allows'$ points for fully correct answer, 1
for partially correct responses, and 0
for unacceptable or unintelligible answers.(if there are $ items
on the test, the points could be added up and
multiplied by $-.
