Assessment

Content Standards

Content Stage 1.1L

Students address discrete elements of daily life, including school, classroom, schedules, subjects,
numbers, time, directions. (CA Department of Education, 2009).

Communication Stage 1.5

Identify learned words, signs (ASL), and phrases in authentic texts. (CA Department of
Education, 2009).

Structures Stage 1.2

Identify similarities and differences in the orthography, phonology, or ASL parameters on the
languages the students know. (CA Department of Education, 2009).

Objective

To assess whether the student has, at a minimum, satisfactorily understood the materials and
contents included in the second unit of this course. The material includes vocabulary, specific
verbs, and an understanding of conjugations in order to move on to the next unit.

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 Unit 2 Exam

Name: Date:

Time limit: 50 minutes

Directions: Write the corresponding English cognate that matches the given Spanish vocabulary
word.

1. la computadora

2. el violín

3. el banco

4. el arte

5. el café

6. visible

7. ejemplo

8. honesto

9. el vocabulario

10. la televisión

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Name: Date:

Directions: Use the correct conjugation of the verbs in the list to complete the following
sentences.

estudiar patinar hablar practicar

necesitar bailar dibujar enseñar
usar nadar

1. Juan y Jorge mucho en la clase de arte.

2. Yo mucho en la clase de español.

3. Usted la computadora en la clase de tecnología.

4. La profesora no nos deja durante el examen.

5. Yo una calculadora y una carpeta para la clase de matemáticas.

6. Miguel y yo deportes en la clase de educación física.

7. Daniela mucho en la clase de danza.

8. ¿Quién la clase de filosofía?

9. Marco y yo mucho en la piscina del gimnasio.

10. Tengo que a la escuela cada mañana porque no tengo coche.

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Name: Date:

Directions: List the English translation of the given verb. Then fill in the blank with the proper
conjugation.

1. What does hablar mean in English? Conjugate hablar below.

(yo) (nosotros/as)

(tú) (vosotros/as)

(Ud./él/ella) (Uds./ellos/ellas)

2. What does estar mean in English? Conjugate estar below.

(yo) (nosotros/as)

(tú) (vosotros/as)

(Ud./él/ella) (Uds./ellos/ellas)

Extra credit- Translate the following sentence into English:

Estoy en la clase de matemáticas pero prefiero ir a la playa con mis amigos.

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Rationale/Discussion

In comparison to all the types of assessments that may be used to measure how the students are
progressing in this course, it was decided that the creation of reading guides and study guides
was the best possible approach for this material. Although other assessment strategies were
considered, the guides were selected primarily due to the limited content of this unit as it pertains
mainly to verb conjugations, vocabulary, and sentence structure. For example, since students will
not be focusing on reading comprehension of a certain text due to the fact that they are in the
beginning stages of learning a new language, it was only logical to create guides that could assist
them in the process of learning new vocabulary. For example, the first page of this unit exam
tests the students on words that contain striking similarities between English and Spanish. This
not only allows for the students to make connections with relative ease, but also encourages them
to realize that their vocabulary in Spanish is already larger than they previously believed.
Furthermore, providing the cognates on the first page of the exam allows for a proper warm up as
the exam evolves into more challenging exercises as the pages follow. The material used to
create the unit exam above is also very similar to the exercises and guides provided over the
course of the unit. In other words, there are not any surprises on this test, especially if the
students were following along during class activities and engaging with the material that had
been provided for them over the course of the unit.

References:

California Department of Education. (2009). World Language Content Standards for California

Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade 12. Retrieved from

https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/documents/eldstndspublication14.pdf

McKenna, M. C. & Robinson, R. D. (2014). Teaching through text: Reading and writing in the

content areas, (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson, Inc.