Color coding * Love letter on last page*

Yellow- Wording/Missing/Confusing
Green- Using a negative in the question
Purple- Answer choices are not congruent
Blue- Positives
Write your name, date, class and
answers on a separate piece of paper.
Write all answers very clearly. Do
your best. You are awesome. POINTS
Types
1. Which of the following is NOT a con of hydroponic farming?
A. It requires a lot of knowledge and education
B. It takes up a lot of room so you can only grow a few things
C. It is expensive
D. All of the above are cons of hydroponic farming
2. GMOs tend to be __________ for LEDC farmers because ______________________.
A. Positive; the seeds produce more crops for commercial farming and the local people have
more to eat
B. Positive; the crops produce seeds strong pest-resistant seeds that the farmer can use the
next year
C. Negative; the quality of the crops is so high that the local people dont want to eat them
D. Negative; they encourage commercial farming which cannot feed the local people
3. Shifting cultivation is most common among which groups?
A. Indigenous tribes and subsistence farmers
B. Indigenous tribes and Mediterranean farmers
C. Mediterranean farmers and LEDC farmers
D. Cereal farmers, livestock/pastoral farmers, and Slash and Burn farmers
Systems and Factors
4. If a farmer has a bad year they might try ____________ because ______________________.
A. Diversification; they are expanding the different opportunities they have for gaining income
B. Planting GMO seeds; they are safer for the environment
C. Diversification; the more types of crops they grow, the greater the chance that some will
survive
D. Buying cattle; cattle produce gases which are beneficial for the environment
5. Which is an example of human/economic input?
A. Labor
B. 4 trucks
C. 100 hectares of land
D. All of the above are human/economic input
6. Farmers are considered decision-makers because
A. They have to decide which crops will grow best on their land
B. They have to decide on changes from year to year depending on outcomes of previous years
C. They must decide when and how to do processes like ploughing, fertilizing, and harvesting
D. All of the above

7. Of the following, which outputs are most likely to come from a Costa Rican farm?
A. Rice and pineapples
B. Wheat and pineapples
C. Pineapples and bananas
D. Coffee and rice
8. A difference between commercial and subsistence farming is that
A. Subsistence farming is not designed to make a lot of money as an output
B. Commercial farming is done by better educated people so it is better for the environment
C. Commercial farms tend to use more machinery
D. Both A and C are correct
9. Intensive commercial farming is negative for _________ because ________________.
A. MEDCs; it produces a high amount of output which is difficult to sell in an industrialized area
B. LEDCs; it takes up a lot of land so people have nowhere to live
C. LEDCs; it produces crops which are good to sell internationally but not for locals to eat
D. MEDCs; it produces crops like wheat, rice, and corn which MEDCs dont need
CAP
10. CAP was formed in which year?
A. 1942
B. 1962
C. 1924
D. 2012
11. Who benefits most from CAP and why?
A. Rich countries because they have more control in the EU and also produce a greater
percentage of the EUs agricultural output
B. Small farmers because CAP focuses mostly on helping small, local farms
C. Poor LEDC farmers because it gives a lot of foreign aid
D. Poor LEDC farmers because it encourages export of extra crops from the EU to LEDCs
12. Which was NOT an initial goal of CAP?
A. To get rid of agricultural trade taxes inside of the EU/EC
B. Keeping the environment safe by greening and diversification
C. To help small farmers stay in business
D. To increase the size and outputs of European farms
13. Current supporters of CAP say that
A. CAP encourages a rich diversity of European land
B. Foreign Farmers shouldnt receive help from the EU
C. The EU should focus on eliminating dairy and sugar farming because the quotas are forcing
MEDC farmers to diversify
D. All of the above
14. A suggested improvement for CAP is
A. Give more monetary aid to LEDCs so they can do more commercial farming
B. Spend more money on research to improve agricultural practices
C. Focus on increasing intensive farming so output can be increased
D. Giving the lakes and mountains of extra food and drink to LEDCs

15. A current goal of CAP is to increase ____________ and decrease __________________.

A. Subsidies; input
B. Sustainable farming; intensive farming
C. Intensive farming; subsistence farming
D. Production; subsistence farming
Nutrition
16. Which of the following is not an effect of being underweight in children under 5 years old?
A. Decreased brain development
B. Weaker bones
C. Increased life expectancy
D. Lowered immune system
17. Which of the following is NOT a reason that some people in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from
malnutrition?
A. Political instability
B. Not enough protein in the diet
C. Pests/disease can hurt crops
D. HIV/AIDS is common
18. Which of the following is not a disease caused by malnutrition?
A. Kwashiorkor
B. Marasmus
C. Gastritis
D. Beri-Beri
Other
19. The Green Revolution
A. Took place in England in the 1960s as a result of HYV use
B. Was a result of Ghandis peace protests and hunger strikes
C. Was a period of technological agricultural changes that increased output of farms
D. Both A and C and correct
20. Which of the following is not a problem with large scale commercial farming as mentioned in
the Meatrix videos?
A. Destroyed Communities
B. Mad Cow Disease
C. Pollution
D. Fewer varieties of meats available

Universidad Nacional
Maestra en Educacin con nfasis en el Aprendizaje del Ingls
Evaluacin en el Aprendizaje del Ingls
Facilitadora: Cindy Rodrguez Soto
Mary Peabody
Self-Assessment Assignment
Dear Mary,
This is one of your quizzes from the beginning of the year, I chose this one because although it
has many things to improve, it also has some good points that you have let go of during the craziness of
the year.
Ill start with the cornerstones you achieved well. The most obvious benefit of this evaluation
was the practicality. Since it was all multiple choice, it only took you about 30 minutes to grade all of
them! Isnt that awesome!! You were able to grade it that night and return it the next day! The students
benefitted from this because it was still fresh in their minds! The security of the test was also very good.
When you gave the test back to the students you reviewed the answers, answered their questions, and
let them take short notes about the ones they got wrong. Then you collected the evaluation again. It will
be easy to adjust and move questions next year and use a lot of the basic ideas safely.
The cornerstones that you could have done better on are transparency and validity. The test is
not very transparent because it doesnt say how much it is worth in total (although I think you said it
verbally in class). It might have a low validity because multiple choice questions might not really reach
the objectives that you should have been aiming at and tested their knowledge in an appropriate way.
On the test Ive highlighted 4 colors here is an explanation of each one:
Yellow- Here I highlighted words or aspects that are confusing or missing. I highlight the word
Assessment because the students are not accustomed to hear that word and they became concerned
that it was some new type of thing. I wrote and highlighted the word POINTS because you didnt
include how much the evaluation was worth. I highlighted Gastritis because it was something you only
really discussed with one of the 2 classes during their lesson so the second class might have been
confused
Green- Here I highlighted questions in which you used a negative in the question. From the
reading we learned that this can be confusing for the students and can reduce the quality of the
evaluation. You should avoid using this.
Purple- Here I highlighted the answers that were not congruent or didnt follow the pattern of
the other answers. According to the readings this can influence the students responses and take away
from the validity of the evaluation.
Blue- Here I highlighted things that you did that I thought were effective. I highlighted the titles
of each section because they helped to organize and direct the students mind in the area they should
be focusing. I also highlighted questions 9 and 10 because they show that even though the evaluation is
multiple choice, you can test a variety of levels of thinking skills from identification to analysis.
Overall the evaluation is successful. However the biggest parts you can fix are to remove the
negatives from the question to avoid confusion and reduced validity, tell how many points it is worth to
increase transparency, and change the title from Assessment to quiz so the students feel more
comfortable. A few other minor adjustments could help- for example, the wording of Gastritis and
incongruent answer choices. One thing that you should take from this test and apply in your others is
the practicality and easiness to grade which results in faster feedback for the students.
With love, Mary