1.10 - Assessment task types

Summary

This activity analyses the TKT exam as an assessment vehicle, while preparing candidates better for their own exam-day experience.

Instructions

1. Hand out one worksheet to each trainee. Review types of assessment by having trainees do the TKT as an assessment activity exercise at the top of the worksheet. Conduct feedback.

2. Refer trainees to the example TKT exam tasks around the room and the grid on their worksheet. Ask trainees to move around the classroom, skim reading the four different exam tasks on the walls and completing the grid on their worksheet. Check trainees understand the five aspects the grid requires them to identify. They may confer with other trainees as they walk around, but should sit down and check with a different person as soon as they have finished.

3. Conduct feedback, focusing on anything trainees found surprising, and tips for the exam day. NB Trainees often confuse the matching with the sequencing or the multiple choice with the odd-one-out activity. Being able to clearly differentiate between the tasks will enable candidates to select appropriate strategies for each section as they take the exam.

It is also important to train candidates to read instructions carefully and, in particular, scan for the (bolded, underlined, capitalised) NOT at the top of an odd-one-out exercise. Candidates who miss this will answer the question as if it were a multiple choice activity, choosing inappropriate options/strategies, thus losing six to seven points in the exam.