d/an ill man/shall we go/that s quite petty.
3) Prepare a set of ten odd-item triplets. Use words from ESL text.
4) Prepare a set of ten key-word items, each with three distractors, plus the word that matches the key. Select them from your student s ESL text. Or you may use these words and then choose five more: slips, matted, stacks, paper, fright.
Advantages of Limited- Response items:
These are quite easy to construct and score.
Only the recognition of letters is required, making this a simple task for beginning students.of Limited- Response Items:
This is not an integrative skill involving actual reading.
Overemphasis on this technique could reduce reading speed.
B. SENTENCES COMPREHENSION.
) Prepare or select a set of three related sketches. Prepare a statement on one of them. Make sure it involves reading comprehension.
) Find a picture- preferably one with various activities in it. Prepare three true -false items related to it. These should be written on a level that your students can understand. Then prepare two yes-no items on the picture. These should be on your student s level.
) Prepare a list of twenty signs. If these are available in your student text, use them. If not, use signs that your students could encounter in English. Write these out. Then choose five of these to test the meaning of. Prepare five three- option multiple- choice questions that test meaning through paraphrase.
) Prepare four three-option multiple-choice questions to test the most advanced grammar items that you have recently taught to your students. Or you may use the items below. Use paraphrase.
a) I d live in a dorm if I didn t have an uncle in town.) If she hadn t answered the telephone, she wouldn t have heard the good news.) He said I wouldn t graduate unless I studied harder. ) She ll invite him whether or not he finishes the painting.
5) Prepare sentence-comprehension items.
a) Write five true-false sentences on your student s level.) Write directions for these items and include an example.
Advantages of Sentence- Comprehension Items
It is rather easy to write true-false items on pictures.
These are good for testing the skills of near beginning students.
This is a rapid way to test reading comprehension.of Sentence- Comprehension Items
Finding good pictures can be rather time consuming.
Not all reading skills are covered in sentence- + comprehension questions.
C. PASSAGE COMPREHENSION.
. Prepare a multiple-choice cloze test form the following passage. Get three distractors for each word in bold face. If possible, get your distractors by administering the passage to your ESL students or students in other class.
The miller had a hut in a little town in a land across the sea. The beautiful castle where the king lived was in the same town. But the miller had not met the king. One day the miller had to take a sack of corn to the king s castle. As he was going into the castle, he met the king. The miller bowed to the king and the king stopped to talk to him. They talked and talked. The miller told the king that he lived in the town. And from this time on, they became the best of friends.
Advantages of Passage Comprehension
This is the most integrative type of reading test.
It is objective and easy to score.
It can evaluate students at every level of reading development.of Passage Comprehension
Passage comprehension is more time consuming to take than other kinds of tests.
One pitfall in preparing this kind of test is utilizing questions that deal with trivial details.
Passage- comprehension tests which use questions on trivial details encourage word-by-word reading.
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