Course and Exam Development: Experience with Exam as Part of the Course Roundtable
Eva Rudolfová
Marcela Sekanina Vavřinová
Antonín Zita
Roksoliana Radchuk

What Do We Need?
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We want to assess the advantages and disadvantages associated with incorporating the English exam
into the final evaluation of the English II course.
Our objective is to find out about the feasibility of this integration and understand its
implications on course content, activities, assignments, exam structure and student motivation.

Driv slide 2 nebo 3?

Mapping the room
•Can you tell us whether:
• - you teach a course that leads to an exam?
• - this course is a high-stake one?
• - this course is an obligatory one?
• - you have developped that course?
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Rychlé kolečko, kdo tam je, co učí, a odpovedi na uvedene otázky. Marcela moderuje, Eva si dela
poznámky na pozdejsi dotazy a reakce. Stači slide takto? Pridat nahoru instrukce k predstaveni nebo
vic odrazek?

Our Questions to You:
•How does having an exam as part of the course changes the course curriculum?


Our Questions to You:
•Can we narrow down the exam content and integrate parts of it into the course workload?


Our Questions to You:
•Or, is it better to go for continuous assessment altogether?


Our Questions to You:
•How do we avoid teaching for the exam?
•(And students seeing the course as mere preparation for the exam?)
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Our Questions to You:
•Do the expectations of the students for the course content change?


Our Questions to You:
•How does this change affect the contents of the examination?


Our Questions to You:
•How might the integration of the exam affect students in terms of their motivation an learning
experience?

Our Questions to You:
•How do we deal with various levels of students` language proficiency?


Our Questions to You:
•How do we deal with students who fail the exam?
•Do they repeat the course or just the exam?

Our Questions to You:
•What challenges have you faced when incorporating the exam into the course?


Our Questions to You:
•Do you see more challenges or benefits in incorporating the exam into the course?


Our Questions to You:
•How does this change affect the workload of the teaching staff?


Our Questions to You:
•What other questions should we ask ourselves?


Our Questions to You:
•Is there anything we have failed to address?


Your Questions to Us:
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Thank you for helping us!
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• FI CJV Team