Reading

Operations (Removing the kidney from a text?)

• Two general types of operations

• Skimming• Search reading• Scanning

• ID parts of speech, discourse markers

• Distinguishing kinds of claims, opinion, hypothesis etc.

• Make inferences

Expeditious Careful

What operations do these questions test?

• The author states, “Most of the men in the military probably don’t care where their health care comes from.” What evidence does she cite to back up her claim?

• Refer back to the article and find three facts about obesity in the U.S.

Read this then ask a partner, “What are two reading operations we test using this text?”

Go to http://www.readingsoft.com/index.html

• What operations does this quiz test?

• Is this mostly a test of expeditious or careful reading?

• (Note: This is kind of a trick question)

• How long should texts testing expeditious operations be?

• How long should they be for testing careful reading operations?

Texts

• What are some common types of texts?

• How does the type of texts included in your tests generate backwash?

Selecting Texts – p. 142

• Scan p. 142• Which suggestion

seems most valuable?• You have chosen a

reading about drug related killings in Mexico for your Spanish for Heritage Speakers class.

• Scan p. 142, which suggestion might this violate?

• You choose a simple text with common info. about cars and gas mileage.

• Which suggestion might this violate?

Writing Items

• Multiple choice• Problems?• Hard to write quickly• Hard to create three good distractors

Writing Items

• Short answer• Benefits???• test a variety of reading skills.• Easier to write• The best short answer items have only _____?

• With a partner, write a short answer item testing for the ability of students to infer meaning of an unknown word or phrase like “laminas finas”

http://www.euroresidentes.com/Recetas/tortilla_patatas.htm

Gap Filling Items. . . You complete me

• What are gap filling items good for?• Avoid use of writing complicated responses• Finding details• Scanning

• You can flip the tortilla until it’s _____ on both sides.• In step two we _____ the eggs with a little _____.• Write a gap filling item to test understanding of details.• What would you adjust if you wanted to test for “expeditious”

reading using this text?

• You are a teacher trying to determine your students ability to read news items. The theme of the chapter is health and you have covered the future tense. You have chosen the article found by following this link.

• http://span676-testingnassessment.wikispaces.com/Materials+to+be+used+in+class

• Try to write two short answer and two gap filling exercises. Include at least one expeditious item and one careful reading item.

• Look at the rubric on page 154.