pop tests
March 9, 2009
Today I gave my 3rd quarter story test in Spanish 3. It’s about a peasant and a princess who get married despite the facts that they just met and her father doesn’t approve. It uses a lot of the vocab we’ve worked on in Spanish 3 this quarter. There’s a mistake on the question part–I […]
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January 13, 2009
A Spanish 2 story test
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I’ve been out for a while–Christmas was a whirlwind, and then I landed in the hospital for 5 days with a severe infection. The baby weathered it better than I did, but I finally feel like I’m recovering. Enough to get back to the blogosphere anyway! In any case, here’s the story test I gave […]
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December 22, 2008
A story test
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My assessment has recently shaped up to be that I have 5 test grades in each quarter. We have a high school policy that except in math, tests form 50% of the student’s grade, and daily grades the other 50%. So test grades are pretty important, and I’ve been accused of not having enough tests […]
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November 21, 2008
Grammar learning vs. acquisition
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My 38 Spanish 1 darlings just turned in a stack of projects–they had to describe and illustrate five family members, at least one of them a plural set, at least one outside their immediate family. They had to tell me 1) what their name was, 2) ¿cómo es?, and 3) ¿cómo está? We worked on […]
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November 21, 2008
Forced to give grammar tests?
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Diane from foreignlanguagefun.com left me this comment on my previous post: “I teach using immersion, stories, TPR, music . . . but then I have to give common assessments. Although they are proficiency-based, there is a lot of isolated grammar, etc. I’m fascinated by the “no warning” tests. Of course, it makes perfect sense and […]
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November 18, 2008
I’ve been grading these Spanish 1 tests lately. This is the test (for some reason the clip art didn’t publish well on Google docs). They did extraordinarily well on it. The average was somewhere around 32-33 out of 38 points possible. And keep in mind, all my tests are given with no warning at all. […]
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