1、Unit 8 Examination Whats wrong with standardized tests?UNIT OVERVIEW In this unit students listen to excerpts about standardized tests and their influences on school education.Students have an opportunity to talk about testing and assessment of students.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up Focus Students will
2、 review and expand their vocabulary related to testing and its influence on students.This vocabulary is useful for talking about:tests,assessment,feelings,describing different kinds of tests and presenting points of view.Unit 8 Examination Listening Task Focus What are students and educators attitud
3、es towards testing?What ensures the place of testing in the overall scope of education?Unit 8 Examination Concept Check Standardized Tests:What do you know about them?Real World Listening FocusStudents will listen to a radio program in which Kyle Randal,from Educational Testing Service Center,is ans
4、wering students questions on standardized tests used for admission by colleges.Interaction Link Are tests necessary?Unit 8 Examination Warm Up Listening Task 1 Listening Task 2 Real World Listening Interaction LinkUnit 8 Examination Preview Are you an excellent test taker or an erratic test taker?Wh
5、ats your attitude towards testing?Do you benefit from testing or are you always suffering from taking exams?Do you love exams or hate them?Who would like to tell us your own experience in taking exams,no matter they are interesting or a form of suffering?Unit 8 Examination Warm Up Preview Introduce
6、the unitIntroduce the unitTodays unit is called“Whats wrong with standardized tests”.Think about the things we have just talked about,and this title.What do you think this unit is about?Unit 8 Examination Warm Up Vocabulary Knowledge multiple-choice (of examination questions)showing several possible
7、 answers from which the correct one must be chosen reward giving or receiving in return for work or merit create make sth.new or original retention ability to remember things infallible never failing,always effective,extremely accurateUnit 8 Examination Warm Up Vocabulary Knowledgescale relative siz
8、e,extent,etc assume accept sth as true before there is proof nutrition(process of giving and receiving)nourishment;food administer control,manage the affairs of(a business,an exam,etc.)observation careful watch assessment evaluation or estimation of the quality of sth.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up Acti
9、vity Read aloud Professor RandalRead aloud Professor Randals answer to s answer to the questions on standardized tests.Write the questions on standardized tests.Write the missing words.Make changes where the missing words.Make changes where necessary.necessary.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutri
10、tion reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infallible1.Are standardized tests fair and helpful Are standardized tests fair and helpful evaluation tools?evaluation tools?Not really.Standardized tests are tests on which all students answer the same questions,usually in
11、 format,and each question has only one correct answer.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infallibleThey the ability to quickly answer superficial questions that do not require real thought.They do not measure the ability
12、 to think or in any field.Their use encourages a narrowed curriculum,outdated methods of instruction,and harmful practices such as in grade and tracking.Standardized tests are not .Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infa
13、llible2.Do IQ tests measure intelligence?Do IQ tests measure intelligence?IQ tests assume that intelligence is one thing that can be easily measured and put on a ,rather than a variety of abilities.They also intelligence is fixed and permanent.However,psychologists cannot agree whether there is one
14、thing that can beUnit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infallible called intelligence,or whether it is fixed,let alone meaningfully measure“it.”Studies have shown that IQ scores can be changed by training,or simply by havin
15、g more friendly people the test.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infallible3.Are there better ways to evaluate student Are there better ways to evaluate student achievement or ability?achievement or ability?Yes.Good te
16、acher ,documentation of student work,and performance-based ,all of which involve the direct evaluation of student effort on real learning tasks,provide useful material for teachers,parents,the community and the government.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple
17、-choice create assessretention scale infallible1.Are standardized tests fair and helpful evaluation Are standardized tests fair and helpful evaluation tools?tools?Not really.Standardized tests are tests on which all students answer the same questions,usually in format,and each question has only one
18、correct answer.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infalliblemultiple-choiceThey the ability to quickly answer superficial questions that do not require real thought.They do not measure the ability to think or in any fiel
19、d.Their use encourages a narrowed curriculum,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infalliblerewardcreateoutdated methods of instruction,and harmful practices such as in grade and tracking.Standardized tests are not .Unit 8
20、 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infallibleretentioninfallible2.Do IQ tests measure intelligence?Do IQ tests measure intelligence?IQ tests assume that intelligence is one thing that can be easily measured and put on a ,rathe
21、r than a variety of abilities.They also intelligence is fixed and permanent.However,psychologists cannot agree whether there is one thing that can beUnit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infalliblescaleassume called intelli
22、gence,or whether it is fixed,let alone meaningfully measure“it.”Studies have shown that IQ scores can be changed by training,or simply by having more friendly people the test.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infallible
23、nutritionadminister3.Are there better ways to evaluate student Are there better ways to evaluate student achievement or ability?achievement or ability?Yes.Good teacher ,documentation of student work,and performance-based ,all of which involve the direct evaluation of student effort on real learning
24、tasks,provide useful material for teachers,parents,the community and the government.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up assume nutrition reward administer observe multiple-choice create assessretention scale infallibleobservationassessment Pairwork Do you always do well in the exam?Do you think these tests a
25、dequately measure your thinking skills or assess what you can do on real-world tasks?Unit 8 Examination Warm Up Oral Preview How do you express the following ideas in idiomatic English?How do you express the following ideas in idiomatic English?1.He is a B student,（但考试经常发挥不正常）.2.If the scores arent
26、what you think they should have been,（不能垮掉）.They are just test scores and tests （并非无懈可击）.3.The SAT and ACT are two standardized tests that （大学入学所必须的）.4.The test is also available in （笔考形式）and （机考形式）forms.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up Oral Preview Answers 1.He is a B student,.2.If the scores arent what
27、you think they should have been,.They are just test scores and tests .3.The SAT and ACT are two standardized tests that .4.The test is also available in and forms.Unit 8 Examination Warm Up but an erratic test takerdont fall apartare not infallibleare almost compulsory for college admittancepaper-basedcomputer-adaptive
