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Preparing
an exam
make sure you keep all
exam materials secret and safe!!
Coordinators of classes where lecteurs teach COMP (1LCE, 1LEA, 2LEA)
need prepare comprehension exams. We need 2 exams for each
semester:
- Semester 1 - January, September 1
- Semester 2 - June, September 2
1. Select your recordings. Ideal material comes from
longer recordings which have to be cut for class, or from texts which
share topic or format with a class text; it is essential to choose exam
texts at the same time as you design your syllabus.
2. Select and record audio texts, and distribute
to your teachers to
transcribe and write questions.
- don't take everything from NPR, even though it has
the best search
- use Goldwave to make your recordings before you start working
3. Make a scratch tape/CD and copy questions to try out at
a lecteur
meeting. We will give feedback and suggest modifications.
4. Make up exam materials: the question papers, answer sheets, master
tapes.
- student papers: make A and B versions so that MC and
T/F questions cannot be copied
- teacher papers: follow the template, making sure the
number of listenings tallies with the student sheets
- master tape
- you will need a portable CD player, a Dansound
cassette player, and mic
- you will also need your listenings on CD and a new
blank cassette
- use the first page of your teacher exam as your
script
- record the intro with the mic onto the
audiocassette (leave 5 seconds run-in)
- pop the tape into the CD player and record the
first listening.
- put the tape back into the cassette player for the
next instructions
- repeat ad nauseam until you get to 'and noone may
leave the room until all the paper have been turned into the teacher.'
- listen through with the student exam to make sure
everthing is as it should be
5. Leave a backup on your computer in 102 and leave
everthing with Shona in 304. Forget about what is on the exam so
you can look genuinely bemused when the students ask you for hints.
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