Author Topic: High School - Speaking Tests (Read 19362 times)

rustymcallister · « **Reply #40 on:** November 29, 2011, 11:24:30 AM »

I did the following speaking test with my kids, and it worked out pretty well. It was designed in part with the white book, with the blonde woman on the cover, called High School English. Hopefully it helps!

Niddle · « **Reply #41 on:** March 29, 2012, 01:07:34 PM »

My high school has asked me to prepare for the speaking tests later on in the semester and my co teacher suggested using a dialogue out of the text book.

I took the dialogue but created my own comic using a link that another teacher helpfully suggested http://www.pixton.com/ It's a really fantastic site, and although my skills are really limited I think the comic came out great.

I laminated 20 copies and gave pairs one to look at. After checking their comprehension of the dialogue, they practiced together, and then were told to memorise it together. After 15 minutes or so we changed their partners so it didn't become boring.

The classes have been going so well I thought I'd share it here if anyone wants to use it. Very little teaching talking time, and lots of student talking time. I also went from pair to pair to give them little tests and lots of praise. Finally we had pairs present to the class which everyone enjoyed.

pejohnson76 · « **Reply #42 on:** April 08, 2012, 03:08:11 PM »

This year, in my school, the speaking exam is worth 10% of the students final grade. In our scoring system we have decided to set 3/10 or 30% of the speaking test score as the minimum score, although in actuality we may only give the lowest students 5 or 6 of 10. I'm not certain about the test type but last year students randomly chose from the textbook topics, thought for a minute about the topic and then spoke for a minute alone about the topic. I recorded many of the responses on my notebook. I used a similar rubric as my official scoring sheet and depending on the length of the student's response assigned a score of between 70-100 with 3 points between scores so possible scores were 100, 97, 94... 76, 73, 70. I put a focus on fluency/speed rather grammar/vocabulary/pronunciation.

upshawteaches · « **Reply #43 on:** June 08, 2012, 03:09:55 PM »

Hey Niddle, I'd never seen that website before today. Thanks for link and ideas. I think it's a funway to make the words come alive.

Catherine Dowie · « **Reply #44 on:** June 27, 2012, 03:00:55 PM »

What do Korean high school students consider a bad score on a speaking test?

Do your lowest level students get 20%, 50% or 70%??

oldstoneface · « **Reply #45 on:** June 27, 2012, 05:33:46 PM »

i cant even go that low. i have been doing a speaking test and i have to give them A,B,C, or D

Hajime79 · « **Reply #46 on:** June 28, 2012, 04:24:29 PM »

They seem really ridged with the scoring. For me it was a choice of either 6, 8, or 10. The lowest being unable to understand at all - the highest being fluent. needless to say I had a billion scores of 8, but not even the students appreciated this rubric.

I tried telling my coteachers how its not a good representation of ability- and hell I got way too bored circling the same thing all the time. Didn't seem to matter too much to them. As long as it was done. I even had to grade a student who was off at sports camp and hadn't been in school for some months.

Catherine Dowie · « **Reply #47 on:** June 29, 2012, 12:08:27 PM »

Quote from: oldstoneface on June 27, 2012, 05:33:46 PM

i cant even go that low. i have been doing a speaking test and i have to give them A,B,C, or D

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

As in...

A = 90
b = 80
C = 70
D = 60?

oglop · « **Reply #48 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:26:11 AM »

It was worse for my participation grade. I give each student a stamp in their 'passport' if they participate well during the class. Some students had 0 stamps at the end of term, because they disrupted every class, or slept the whole way through.

At the end of term, I had to convert the stamps into a grade out of 10. Took me hours to put all the grades into spreadsheets. Only after I had finished did I get told that I had to give even the students who had 0 stamps a grade of 5 because 'they still turned up to class'. Tried to protest saying that they literally had no input, and even disrupted the other students.. but nope. No wonder in the next term I had way more students decide not to bother doing anything, knowing that they could do absolutely nothing and still get a score of 50%. Sigh.

samuelcowan33 · « **Reply #49 on:** July 06, 2012, 12:19:40 PM »

I've just completed the speaking tests, too. I found the system to be hugely faulted as I too had to score the students either 6 (E), 7 (D), 8 (C), 9 (B) or 10 (A).

I was desperate to score the students who completely wasted my time a big, fat zero.

I also felt that the test was hugely flawed as the students considered it more to be a speech than a conversation. It really annoyed me when the students cracked out a robotic paragraph about who inspires them but if I asked them questions about their answer when the testing was over, they couldn't complete a full sentence correctly.

It did, however, provide a good way of getting to know the students a bit more as I am still new to the school. POSITIVES.

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