TECHNIQUES USED
Techniques used in semi-objective questions include:
(1) Transformation
(2) Completion
(3) Cloze Test
(4) Short — answer Questions
4.19 TRANSFORMATION ITEMS;
The transformation items;are.extremely useful for testing the students ability to construct and produce sentences . A wide range
of grammatical areas can be covered in this test format for example
Rewrite each of the the following sentences beginning each new sentence with the words given. Make the necessary changes without changing the meaning.
1. Where is the station car — park? Mrs. Smith asked. Mrs. Smith asked --yX^ ^p^^^^T^ v w*4 -
I have not -----------------
2.1 last saw him when I was a student
Carefully constructed completion items arc a useful means of testing the students ability to produce correctly grammatical and meaningful sentence Thus, a semantic task or structural one can be covered in this test. Completion items are considered preferable to multiple-choice items. in certain test situations, since they measure production rather than are easier to construct than items with distractors, as follows:
write a word derived from the word between brackets :-
1 be ------------when you cross the raod. (care)
2. His arrival was ---------- unexpected, (complete).
Comp ete the following:
1. Even if had stood on a chair -------------
2. He worked so hard that ---------------