06级教育硕士专业课作业成绩：考试科目：英语测试任课教师：周榕学号：2006434姓名：宋伟专业：教育硕士完成时间：2007年1月AnEvaluationonaTestPaper---BasedonModule2Unit4ⅰ.IntroductionThereportisbasedonanachievementtestpapertakenbySanshuiMiddleSchool,FoshanCity.ThepurposeofthetestistocheckwhetherthestudentshavereachedtheteachingobjectivesinModule2Unit4onthenewstandardEnglishforChina’sseniorstudentswhichareeditedbyBeijingNormalUniversityPress.Altogetherninehundredandtwenty-eightstudentstookthetestandtheymustfinishthetestintwohours.Allthepapersaremarkedbyteachersandthecomputer.ⅱ.AnalysisofthePaperOnthewhole,thepapercoverstwotypesoftests---objectiveitemsandsubjectiveitems,ofwhichobjectiveitemscover80marksandsubjectiveitemscover70marks.Thefullmarksare150.1.TheStructureAndContentofthePaperThepaperisdesignedaccordingtothenewstandardNMETinGuangdongProvincewhichwillbeputintopracticein2007.ItseemsthatthissetofpaperfollowsthemodeofthetraditionalNMETsinceitismadeupoffourparts:listeningcomprehension,languageknowledgeanditsuse,readingconprehensionandwriting.Butinfactit’sverydifferentfromtheoldNMET.Thedifferencesliesinthefollowingaspects:1)Inthelisteningsection,thelastfiveitemsrequiresthetesteeestofilltheformaccordingtothelisteningmaterial;2)thedesigneromittedtheoldmultiplechoiceitemwhichhavebeenusedformanyyears;3)thetestees’grammarknowledgeistestedthroughfillingtheblanksinapassage;4)thenewiteminformationmatchisaddedtoreadingcomprehension;5)thetraditionalitemerrorscorrectioninapassageisomitted;6)thewritingsectionconsistsoftwoparts---basicwriting,whichaskstheparticipantswriteashortpassageinfivesentencesaccordingtotheinformationgiven,andwritingafterreading,forwhichthetesteeemustwriteapassageofabout150wordsrelatedtothereadingmaterial.Thedetailedinformationaboutthepapercanbeseeninthefollowingtables.Table1.theproportionofthestructureandcontentSerialnumberQuantityofitemsPointsTotalpointsPart1ListeningSection1selectthebestchoice1-15151.522.5Section2Fillintheform16-205210Part2LanguageknowledgeanditsuseSection1Closetest21-35151.522.5Section2Fillintheblanks36-45101.515Part3ReadingSection1Selectthebestchoice46-6015230Section2Informationmatch61-655210Part4WritingSection1Basicwriting11515Section2Writingafterreading12525Accordingtotable1,wecanseethatthepaperfocusesontestingtheparticipants’languagecompetenceinsteadoflanguageknowledge.Thismeetstherequirementsofthenewcurriculum.2.Theresultsofthetest1)StatisticsofscoresanddistributionofthescoresTable2OveralltesteemarkNumberofparticipantsNumberpassingthetestRateofpassingAverageHighestscoreLowestscore92888194.94%102.07135.556Thedistributionofallthe928participants’marksonthesubjectiveitemscanbeseeninthefollowing:Graph1.Distributionofallthescoresindifferentsectionsandthenumberofparticepants2)Thetendencyofthecentralizationanddecentralizationtable3ThetendencyofthecentralizationanddecentralizationaboutthesubjectiveitemsTendencyofcentralizationTendencyofdecentralizationMean54.07Md55.5Mo58.5Rateofpassing94.94%Highestscore73.5Lowestscore0Fulldistance73.5Standarddeviation23.92%Thedataontheleftofthetableaboveshowsthatmostparticipantshavegotabout55scoreswhichreflectsthelevelofEnglishteachingontheschool.Thedataontherightshowsthatthereismuchdifferencebetweentopstudentsandbottomstudentsandtheteachersshouldtrytoreducethedifference.3.EvaluationonthepaperI’dliketomakeanevaluationonthepaperaccordingtoitsdifficulty,discrimination,validityandreliability.1)FacilityvalueFromthegraphbelow,wecanfindoutthatthefacilityvalueofmostitemsisabout0.5whichshowsthattheseitems’difficultyismoderate.About17items’facilityvalueisabove0.7whichtellsthattheseitemsarealittletooeasy.Onlyoneitem’sfacilityvalueisabout0.3.Sowecansaythatonthewholethepaperiseasyforthestudentstodo.Thefinalscoresalsoshowstheresultofthegraph.Graph2.Difficultyoftheobjectiveitems.2)DiscriminationGraph3.DiscriminationoftheobjectiveitemsAccordingtothegraphabove,aboutahalfitems’discriminationisabout1.0,13items’discriminationisabout0.2andtherestitems’discriminationisbetween0.4-0.8.Sothetotalscoreonthetestisavalidmeasureofthestudents’ability.3)ValidityTable4ValidityofthepaperPart1Part2Part3Part4Total0.360.210.340.350.32Threeparts(parts1,3,4)havegotabout0.35onthevalidityandonlypart2got0.21andthevalidityofthetotalpaperis0.32.Sothepaperisvalidonthewhole.4)ReliabilityNm(N-m)Accordingtotheformula:r11=(1-),wecangetr11=0.93.ItshowsN-1Nx22Theresultofthetestisreliable.iii.ConclusionThepaperisalittleeasyforthestudentstodo,butitsdiscriminaton,validityandreliabilityareallproper.Soit’sagoodtestpaper.
