Integrated Skills Test

Running head: INTEGRATED SKILLS TEST 1
INTEGRATED SKILLS TEST
PARAMETERS
The students undertaking the test are Saudi Arabian male undergraduate students
undertaking the EFL course at the intermediate level and have been learning the second language
for the past one year. The class consists of 15 students falling within the age group of 18-25
years of age. The test designed is an integrated skills test testing the listening, writing and
speaking abilities of the test as well. The test will require the students to be in groups consist of 3
member each group to discuss their presentation in the class. The test is an achievement to see
the student’s performances for the past month and serve as a midterm.
TEST GOALS
The integrated skills test being designed is expected to achieve the following test goals which
are as follows:
 Improving the student’s listening and comprehension skills
 Improving the student’s ability to retain information as well as communicate through
sentence building and thus improving student’s speaking skills
 Improving the student’s writing ability summarizing the content communicated to the
student
TEST OBJECTIVES
 Demonstrate the listening and speaking ability by discussing and summarizing the
important points of the video shown by the instructor through 90% accuracy in
representing the summary orally in the class.

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 Demonstrate the writing skills by summarizing the points in the video in the form of a
short essay with at least 90% accuracy
TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS
PARTICULARS LISTENING SUMMARIZING TOTAL
SPEAKING TEST 50 - 50
WRITING TEST - 50 50
TOTAL 50 50 100
TOTAL % 50% 50% 100%

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English 103 (Midterm, 2 hours)
NAME…………………………… DATE……………………….
Directions to the test
You will be shown a video and based upon that video you have to do the following:
1. Clearly listening to the video 12 minutes (You will listen only once)
2. Discussing with the group members for 15 minutes (The teacher will assign you with a
partners)
3. Giving an oral presentation in the class for 5 minutes (All the group members together)
4. Write a short essay summary about the video (minimum 250 words and maximum 500
words)
SPEAKING TEST (50 POINTS)
 All the group members are required to discuss the content of the video with each other
 Each student should speak by turn and pose at least one question
 All the information from the video needs to be integrated for the speaking test
WRITING TEST (50 POINTS)
 Students are required to write a short essay of at least 250 to 500 words based upon the
content summarized from the video.
 Each student is to write the essay individually.
 All the important points of the video must be covered.
 Essay must be well structured and organized.
 You only have 30 minutes to complete the essay.

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English 101 (Midterm)
Note sheet
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English 101 (Midterm)
Writing sheet
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Teacher Rubric for Quiz1 Presentation (in class)
Student Name: ____________________________ Group Name: _____________________
SCORE EXCELLENT GOOD SATISFACTORY UNSATISFACTORY

GRADE
SPECIFICS 8-10 6-8 4-6 BELOW 4
Coverage of All the important 1-2 points 2-3 points of topic Most of the important
/10
topic points covered missing missing points missing
1-2
Clear
incorrect 2-4 Large number of
Pronunciation pronunciation of /10
pronunciat mispronunciations mispronunciations
words
ion
1-2
Correct use of 2-4 grammatical Many grammatical
Grammar grammatic /10
grammar rules errors errors
al errors
1-2 errors
3-4 errors in
Good flow in the in Lack of fluency in
Fluency sentence /10
presentation sentence presentation
structuring
structuring
One or
Clear two
Organization
organization of sentences Few incoherent Presentation lacking
of thoughts /10
thoughts and reflect ideas fluency in the ideas
and ideas
views incoherenc
y in ideas
TOTAL /50
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SCORING RUBRIC
LISTENING AND SPEAKING TEST

GRADE
All the
Coverage of important 1-2 points 3-4 points of topic Most of the important
/10
topic points missing missing points missing
covered
Clear
1-2 incorrect 2-4 Large number of
Pronunciation pronunciation /10
pronunciation mispronunciations mispronunciations
of words
Correct use of 1-2
2-4 grammatical Many grammatical
Grammar grammar grammatical /10
errors errors
rules errors
Good flow in 1-2 errors in 3-4 errors in
Lack of fluency in
Fluency the sentence sentence /10
presentation
presentation structuring structuring
One or two
Clear
Organization sentences
organization Few incoherent Presentation lacking
of thoughts reflect /10
of thoughts ideas fluency in the ideas
and ideas incoherency
and views
in ideas
TOTAL /50
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WRITING TEST

GRADE
All the
1-2 points
Summarization important 3-4 important Most of the important
not /10 *2
coverage points points not covered points missed
covered
covered
Most of
Clear
the Have the three
Structure of Introduction, Lacking a clear
structure is paragraphs of /10
the essay Body and structure
well distinction
conclusion
developed
1-4 errors
Correct use of in 5-10 errors in Many grammatical

Grammar and
grammar and grammar grammar and errors and poor /10
vocabulary
vocabulary and vocabulary vocabulary
vocabulary
Coherency in Excellent Good Satisfactorily

Incoherent essay /10
essay coherent coherent coherent
TOTAL /50
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References
DocMikeEvans Channel. (2012, December 12). Retrieved November 12, 2017, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16vhtjWKL0&t

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Running head: INTEGRATED SKILLS TEST 1

INTEGRATED SKILLS TEST

 Improving the student’s listening and comprehension skills

 Improving the student’s ability to retain information as well as communicate through

sentence building and thus improving student’s speaking skills

representing the summary orally in the class.

short essay with at least 90% accuracy

PARTICULARS LISTENING SUMMARIZING TOTAL

TOTAL % 50% 50% 100%

English 103 (Midterm, 2 hours)

Directions to the test

SPEAKING TEST (50 POINTS)

WRITING TEST (50 POINTS)

content summarized from the video.

 Each student is to write the essay individually.

 All the important points of the video must be covered.

 Essay must be well structured and organized.

 You only have 30 minutes to complete the essay.

English 101 (Midterm)

English 101 (Midterm)

Teacher Rubric for Quiz1 Presentation (in class)

Student Name: ____________________________ Group Name: _____________________

SCORE EXCELLENT GOOD SATISFACTORY UNSATISFACTORY

LISTENING AND SPEAKING TEST

SCORE EXCELLENT GOOD SATISFACTORY UNSATISFACTORY

SCORE EXCELLENT GOOD SATISFACTORY UNSATISFACTORY

Correct use of in 5-10 errors in Many grammatical

Coherency in Excellent Good Satisfactorily

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