Webinar

Webinar

The webinar that I attend is about being a fair tester by Maha Hassan.
In this webinar I see several types of questions. In comprehension the questions should be from top to bottom, which means that we should start with general questions and then detailed questions.
We should keep in mind why we are testing the students and part of using comprehension test is that we test their understanding.
We should start the exam with general questions about the main idea because we have to be sure that the students understand everything and then the detailed questions.
Then we ask them indirect questions to let them guess.
So in comprehension questions first we should ask general questions then detailed questions then indirect one. Also we can apply bloom's taxonomy in our questions.
We should keep three questions in mind:

• Why are you giving an exam to your students?
• What do you want to assess?
• How do you decide what to test and how to test it?

Important point to keep in mind:

• Don't overdo standards because sometimes it complicates the exam and waste time for students.
• Check timing to know if the students have enough time to finish all the questions.
• Make the question layout easy to follow because sometimes the questions that we put for comprehension part the students don't understand it.
• Reduce emphasis on memory.
• Don't measure the same things again and again.
• Keep sentences short.
• Are you covering learning outcomes?
• Ask colleagues to revise your test before giving it to your students.

How should the students know about the marking criteria?

By using rubric. We have several kinds of rubric that we can do. For large classes you can make a table of signs to help the students understand your notes without taking too much time.

When correcting the exam:

• Penalize the same mistake once.
• Review the test after the exam.
• Make notes on the exam results.

How to turn exam questions into assessment exercises?

• Knowledge or how it is used.

            Interesting sum up points: 1- An assessment is a process.

                                                      2- A test is a product.

                                                     3- A diagnosis is a conclusion.

• Process or product.
• The communication of ideas.
• Convergent or divergent thinking.
• Absolute or relative standards.            

How can you support student’s failure?

• Help students to come to a position where they can see failure as an opportunity for learning.
• Take account of the feelings of students.
• Help students to understand that it is their work and not their personality that is the problem.
• Concentrate on what students can do in future it improve, rather than railing over their failings.
• Let students have further opportunities for practicing under simulated exam conditions.
• Let students play examiner.
• Help students to identify what went well.
• Help students develop revision and exam techniques.
• Encourage students in pairs to set each other questions and mark them.

How can technology help?

• Quiz Alize
• Quiz let
• Secretive
• Kahoot

The most important are Quiz Alize and Quiz let. 

In Quiz Alize you have the choice to make quiz or test and then you save. After saving it will become ready to the students. Also you can do this quiz or exam in home or in class.

In Quiz let you can put multiple choice questions, true or false, complete the sentence and so on (6 to 7 types of questions).