Testing mistakes

and

confusing words

to avoid

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tear from their eyes; there shall

be no more death, nor sorrow,

nor crying. There shall be no

more pain, for the former things

have passed away.” Revelation

21:4

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Testing mistakes

and

confusing words

to avoid

The New System Of Education

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Introduction:

To some extent, good testing procedure, like good

language use, can be achieved through

avoidance of errors. Almost any language-

instruction program requires the preparation and

administration of tests, and it is only to the extent

that certain common testing mistakes have been

avoided that such tests can be said to be

worthwhile selection, diagnostic, or evaluation

instruments.

Categories of mistakes:

The common mistakes have been grouped into

four categories as follows: general examination

characteristics, Item characteristics, test validity

concerns, and administrative and scoring issues.

Five specific mistakes have been identified under

each of these categories.

General Examination Characteristics

1. Tests which are too difficult or too easy

2. An insufficient number of items

3. Redundancy of test type

4. Lack of confidence measures

5. Negative wash-back through

non-occurrence forms

Item Characteristics

6. Trick questions

7. Redundant wording

8. Divergence cues

9. Convergence cues

10. Option number

Test-Validity Concerns

11 . Mixed content

12. Wrong medium

13. Common knowledge

14. Syllabus mismatch

15. Content matching

Administrative and Scoring Issues

16. Lack of cheating controls

17. Inadequate instructions

18. Administrative inequities

19. Lack of piloting

20. Subjectivity of scoring.

The 3 worst English grammar

mistakes

The most common written grammatical errors that

should be avoided at all costs:

1: Your when you should write - You're

2: Its when you should write - It's

3: Their when you should write - Their or they're

My own attitude:

There are other mistakes which should be

avoided also, like the following:

1-The test is not smart. I mean the test which is not

subjective/ specific, measurable, actual, reliable and

timed is a wrong test.

2- A test with no care for individual differences.

The test must include items for learners with special

needs like the slow learners and the gifted ones.

3-A test without the 4 skills. The test must deal with

the4 linguistic skills including listening, speaking,

reading and writing.

4- Just a theoretical test. The test mustn't be only

just a theoretical test. It must measure the practical

learning which learners have conducted. To do is

to apply, to apply is to evaluate and to evaluate is

to learn.

5-Test of attained information. The test must not

deal with how much information the learner has

learnt by heart without comprehension. It must

measure the critical thinking of learners.

I mean the learner's ability to analyze,

compose and evaluate.

Confusing English words

Accept v Except

Accept is a verb. Pronunciation is /əkˈsept/

1) to receive, to agree to take something

The packet was accepted by someone working in the office reception

I accept your apology

2) to say yes to an offer

They gave her a bigger salary, so she accepted the job in London.

Except is a conjunction or preposition. Pronunciation is /ɪkˈsept/

Everyone was at the meeting this morning except Alex.

The library is open every day except for Sunday.

Affect v Effect

AFFECT is a verb: Pronunciation /əˈfekt/

Affect means 'to change or influence something'

Will the new rules affect me?

The medicine affects my grandad's heart rate so

that it doesn't speed up too much.

She was deeply affected by the death of her

mum... they were very close.

EFFECT is a noun: Pronunciation /ɪˈfekt/

Effect means 'a change that is produced in one

thing by another'

Diesel engine pollution has a damaging effect

on the environment

Yoga can reduce the effects of modern-day

stressful lifestyles.

The new tax laws will come into effect on the

1st January.

PLEASE NOTE: effect can also be a verb,

(Example:

'They effected radical change in the

company') but

it is not used very much these days and mainly

just in Business English writing)

EFFECT vs AFFECT SENTENCE

If you can remember this sentence, it might help you

remember that effect is a noun and affect is a verb.

The effect of the alcohol affected him quite strongly.

Breath v Breathe

'a breath' is a noun, 'to breathe' is a verb

Different pronunciation: breath /breθ/ vs to

breathe /briːð/

BREATH (noun): Take a deep breath! / After my run

this morning

I was really out of breath.

BREATHE (VERB): I've just eaten some garlic,

so I'm sorry if I'm breathing all over you. / Breathe

deeply and try to relax

Borrow v Lend

to BORROW: someone TAKES something (for a

temporary period, not permanently) from somebody

else to LEND: someone GIVES something

(temporarily, not for ever) to somebody.

Could I just borrow your pen for a minute?

I will lend you the money but I need it back by Friday,

OK?

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Desert v Dessert

Note that these two words have 3 different

meanings and 2 different sounds

DESERT (WITH ONE 'S')

desert (noun): /ˈdezət/ - a large hot place with sand

and no rain

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world.

to desert (verb): /dɪˈzɜːt/ - to leave someone

behind/ without help or to run away from the army

DESSERT (WITH TWO 'S')

/dɪˈzɜːt/ - The sweet sugary food that you eat

at the end of a meal

Its v It's

It's (with an apostrophe): the short way of writing

it is It's so nice to meet you. / You won't need

your jacket it's really warm outside.

Its (no apostrophe): belonging to 'it', like his/her

shows belonging to he/she

My dog plays with its favourite toy every night.

Lose v Loose

'to lose' is a verb - /luːz/ (rhyming with SNOOZE) -

the opposite of 'to win'

We can't lose any more games this season

if we want to win the league.

'loose' is an adjective - /luːs/ (rhyming with MOOSE) -

the opposite of 'tight', or not constricted or contained

Last year I lost a lot 10 kilos and now my jeans are really

loose around my waist.

Of v Off

OFF - is the opposite of 'on'. Pronunciation is /ɒf/

Examples:

Please turn off the lights when you leave.

(Here, off is a preposition and forms a phrasal verb)

SGI is just off Oxford Street... only 5 mins walk

from Oxford Circus. (Here, off is a preposition)

After the accident the car just drove off!

(Here, off is an adverb)

Ooh God, this milk is off - it smells awful!

(Here, off is an adjective)

OF - has lots and lots of meanings and uses.

Pronunciation is /əv/

Examples:

She always takes up more than her side of the bed.

The colour of that house is really interesting.

I don't really know him. He's just a friend of a friend.

Of course!

Practice v Practise

In British English, there is a different spelling -

practice (with a 'c') is a noun and to practise

(with an 's') is a verb.

Both spelling variations have exactly the same

pronunciation: /ˈpræktɪs/

NOUN: John broke his leg in football practice last

night / Practice makes perfect!

VERB: She practises the violin for 4 hours a day /

As a parent it's hard to practise what you preach.

Stationary v Stationery

Stationary (with an 'a') means 'not moving'

Stationery (with an 'e') is paper, pens, pencils,

envelopes that are used for writing

Both words are pronounced /ˈsteɪʃnriː/ or

/ˈsteɪʃənriː/

Both ways of saying the words are correct and

depends on where the speaker grew up, not on

which version/meaning of the word they are saying.

Their v There v They're

THEIR (determiner): /ðeə/ Meaning: belonging to

'they', a group of people - Is that their car?

THERE (function word): /ðeə/ Can be used as a

pronoun, adverb, or as an interjection.

Pronoun (to introduce the subject of the sentence):

There's a strange man knocking on the window

downstairs.

Adverb: Have a seat there and I'll be back in a

minute

Interjection: There, that wasn't too bad, was it?

THEY'RE (contraction - short form way of writing

'they are'):

The thing I don't like about The Rolling Stones

is that they're too old!

To v Too v Two

TO (preposition) meaning 'in the direction of'

TOO (adverb) meaning also / more than enough /

extremely. TWO is a number.

Cover photo of Forum 2004

English Teaching Forum 2004,

Volume 42, Issue 1

1-MA KINGS ENS EOF WORDS

2-The Communicative Approach:

3-Reflective Portfolio

4-English Magazines

5-Authentic Video in the Beginning ESOL

6 Film for Listening and Speaking

7-Sexist Language Persists

8-Teacher Resources

9-Abstracts from Other Journals

10-The Lighter Side

11-The Lighter Side (answers)

12-A Postcard from America

13-An Integrated Skills Lesson Plan

Teaching methods for 4 stages.

-How to conduct ELT workshop

-Competency-based teaching method

22--How to conduct ELT workshop

23-Competency-based teaching method