Formative evaluation

Class 7A
16.05.2017

I. Performance descriptors:

ITEMS 4 6 8 10
IA Distinguish 10 Distinguish 15 Distinguish 20 Distinguish 25
verbs in past simple verbs in past verbs in past simple verbs in past
and present perfect simple and and present perfect simple and present
simple present perfect simple perfect simple
simple
IB Formulate 2 Formulate 3 Formulate 4 Formulate 5
questions correctly questions questions correctly questions correctly
correctly
IC Chooses 1 correct Chooses 2 correct Chooses 3 correct Chooses 4 correct
answer answers answers answers
II Forms 2 correct Forms 3 correct Forms 4 correct Forms 5 correct
tenses tenses tenses tenses
II. Type of items:

1. Objective item of distinguishing the verbal tense:

Past Simple verbs: started, read, was, became, spent, loved, based, started, tried, had, broke up
(11)
Present Perfect Simple verbs: have been, have continued, has crossed, has been/ ridden/
visited/ captured/ had/ travelled/ fought/ hunted/ found, has been, has written, has given. (15)

2. Objective item of formulating questions:

How many books have been published worldwide?
Who illustrated/ was the illustrator of Tintin?
What did he love as a child?
When did he start to feel imprisoned by / fall out of love with Tintin?
What has he created?

3.Objective items of mutiple choice:

1.c 2.b 3.c 4.b

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4. Objective item of forming the tense in a given sentence (Past simple or Present
Perfect Simple):
1.have read 2. has had 3.started 4.lived 5.has given

III. Correction scale:

IA - 25 x 0.1p = 2.5p
IB - 5 x 0.5p = 2.5p
IC - 4 x 0.5p = 2p
II - 5 x 0.4p = 3p
1 punct din oficiu
TEST ANALYSIS

Objectives:
1. To recognize the past tense simple and present perfect simple in a given context;
2. To formulate questions with Past Simple and Present Perfect Simple;
3. To identity information from the text;
4. To form the Past Simple or Present Perfect Simple of the verbs in brackets.

Realizing the objectives:

No. objective 1 2 3 4
Pupils who accomplished it 11 5 10 0
Pupils who partially accomplished it 6 12 7 15
Pupils who did not accomplish it 1 1 1 3

Grading:

Procentage: 9 – 44.4% Average: 7,41 (şapte 41%)

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 8 – 16.6%
7 – 11.1%
6 – 11.1%
5 – 16.6%

SWOT Analysis

Strengths:

Most of the pupils have recognized the tenses in the text and categorized them
correctly. The understanding of the text has also proven to be done correctly. The
difficulty of the items was medium and most of the marks were above the average.

Weaknesses:

The second item that required formulating questions based on the given answers has
demonstrated that at least half of them still keep the past tense form of the verb with
the auxiliary did. Also they tend to use present tenses when formulating questions
even though the text gives clear clues as to what tense must be used. Some of them
prefer to use past tense simple in all sentences when they are required to insert the
correct tense into the context.

Opportunities:

During the test correction, the pupils admitted that they made mistakes from lack of
attention. After more lessons of consolidation, they will be able to see the difference
between past tense simple and present perfect simple.

Threats:

Three pupils have serious lacks in their level of understanding English language. They
won’t be able to recover the lost ground due to their inability to grasp the importance
of knowing this language and its usefulness later on.

Comments upon the results:

Pupils have a good capacity to assimilate new knowledge and to improve their
proficiency in properly using English. Most of them are able to distinguish the two
tenses that were evaluated and to use them in sentences. The average, above the
medium, is satisfactory, yet the level of difficult was not high, so the expectations of
better result were higher.

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Remedial measures:

The teacher intends to diversify the type of exercises that pupils need to practice
(matching, fill in, charting, translations, compositions) and to focus more on grammar
structures. The final evaluation will be postponed until most of the pupils are able to
correctly use the Past tense simple and Present perfect simple.