Questão 3478210

• Banca: VUNESP
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Cerquilho - SP
• Ano: 2019
• Provas: VUNESP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Cerquilho - SP - Professor de Educação Básica - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions; Palavras conectivas | Connective words; Sinônimos | Synonyms; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

      Characteristics of a good test

      In order to judge the effectiveness of any test, it is sensible to lay down criteria against which the test can be measured, as follows:

      Validity: a test is valid if it tests what it is supposed to test. Thus it is not valid, for example, to test writing ability with an essay question that demands specialist knowledge of history or biology — unless it is known that all students share this knowledge before they do the test.

      A particular kind of ‘validity’ that concerns most test designers is face validity. This means that the test should look, on the ‘face’ of it, as if it is valid. A test which consisted of only three multiple choice items would not convince students of its face validity however reliable or practical teachers thought it to be.

      Reliability: a good test should give consistent results. For example, if the same group of students took the same test twice within two days — without reflecting on the first test before they sat it again — they should get the same results on each occasion. If two groups who were demonstrably alike took the test, the marking range would be the same.

      In practice, ‘reliability’ is enhanced by making the test instructions absolutely clear, restricting the scope for variety in the answers. Reliability also depends on the people who mark the tests. Clearly a test is unreliable if the result depends to any large extent on who is marking it. Much thought has gone into making the scoring of tests as reliable as possible.

(Jeremy Harmer. The practice of English language teaching. 2007. Adaptado)

The word “Thus”, in the second paragraph, can be correctly replaced by

• A. “Also”.
• B. “So”.
• C. “However”.
• D. “Or else”.
• E. “But then”.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• assim:

  so, thus, thereby, therefore, as soon, like this

• Thus significa portanto. Já So significa então. Ambos transmitem uma ideia de consequência.

• A questão cobra conhecimento gramatical, especificamente sobre palavras conectivas.
  
  Vamos analisar o enunciado:
  
  
  The word “Thus", in the second paragraph, can be correctly replaced by... = A palavra “Thus", no segundo parágrafo, pode ser corretamente substituída por...
  
  Vejamos o trecho em questão:
  
  Validity: a test is valid if it tests what it is supposed to test. Thus it is not valid, for example, to test writing ability with an essay question that demands specialist knowledge of history or biology — unless it is known that all students share this knowledge before they do the test. = Validade: um teste é válido se testa o que deve testar. Portanto, não é válido, por exemplo, testar a habilidade de redação com uma questão dissertativa que exija conhecimento especializado de história ou biologia - a menos que se saiba que todos os alunos compartilham esse conhecimento antes de fazerem o teste.
  
  A palavra THUS é um advérbio e assume vários significados: "portanto, assim, então, dessa forma, deste modo, por conseguinte, desta maneira", e sinaliza o resultado de algo que foi mencionado anteriormente. Assim como em Português, em Inglês a palavra THUS tem vários sinônimos, como por exemplo: "So", "hence", "for this reason", "in this way".
  
  Analisando as alternativas teremos:
  
  A) ERRADO - “Also". = também
  
  B) CORRETO - “So". = então
  
  C) ERRADO - “However". = entretanto
  
  D) ERRADO - “Or else". = ou então
  
  E) ERRADO - “But then".  = mas daí
  
  
  GABARITO DO PROFESSOR: ALTERNATIVA B.