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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 8 Examination,Whats wrong with,standardized tests?,Unit 8 Examination Whats wro,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,UNIT OVERVIEW Unit 8 Examina,Warm Up Focus,Students will 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,Warm Up Focus Unit 8 Examina,Listening Task Focus,What are students and educators,attitudes towards testing?,What ensures the place of testing in the overall scope of education?,Unit 8 Examination,Listening Task Focus Unit 8,Concept Check,Standardized Tests:What do you know about them?,Real World Listening Focus,Students will listen to a radio program in which Kyle Randal,from Educational Testing Service Center,is answering students,questions on standardized tests used for admission by colleges.,Interaction Link,Are tests necessary?,Unit 8 Examination,Concept Check Unit 8 Examina,Warm Up,Listening Task 1,Listening Task 2,Real World Listening,Interaction Link,Unit 8 Examination,Unit 8 Examination,Preview,Are you an excellent test taker or an erratic test taker?,What,s 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 Unit 8 Examination,Preview,Introduce the unit,Today,s unit is called,“,What,s 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,Preview Unit 8 Examination,Vocabulary Knowledge,multiple-choice,(of examination questions)showing several possible 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 accurate,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up,Vocabulary Knowledge Unit 8,Vocabulary Knowledge,scale,relative size,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,Vocabulary KnowledgeUnit 8 E,Activity,Read aloud Professor Randal,s answer to the questions on standardized tests.Write the missing words.Make changes where necessary.,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up,assume nutrition reward administer,observe multiple-choice create assess,retention scale infallible,Activity Unit 8 Examination,1.,Are standardized tests fair and helpful evaluation tools?,Not really.Standardized tests are tests on which all students answer the same questions,usually in,format,and each question has only one correct answer.,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up,assume nutrition reward administer,observe multiple-choice create assess,retention scale infallible,1.Are standardized tests fair,They,the ability to quickly answer superficial questions that do not require real thought.They do not measure the ability 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 assess,retention scale infallible,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up a,2.,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 thing that can be,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up,assume nutrition reward administer,observe multiple-choice create assess,retention scale infallible,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up a,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 having more friendly people,the test.,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up,assume nutrition reward administer,observe multiple-choice create assess,retention scale infallible,called intelligence,or whe,3.,Are there better ways to evaluate student 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 tasks,provide useful material for teachers,parents,the community and the government.,Unit 8 Examination Warm Up,assume nutrition reward administer,
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