Methodology Class 24/03/2011

Instrument (Personality Test)


                                                           Most of     Often    Sometimes    Rarely    Almost
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1.- I think about all the things I have not
     yet accomplished.

                                           

2.- I feel tense or on edge.

     

3.- I go out of my way to get things I want.

4.- When I'm doing well at something I love
     to keep at it.

5.- I feel most people around me seem to
     have a better life than I do.    

     

6.- I think I am a failure.              

7.- I'm able to express my moods.

8.- I really enjoy caring for other people.

9.- I frequently examine my own behavior.

10.- I strike up a conversation with a 
      stranger easily.

11.- I feel I am losing control.

12.- I'm always willing to try something 
      new if I think it will be fun.

13.- I like being myself.

14.- I find it easy to put myself in 
      somebody else's shoes.

15.- You think people are basically good 
      and trustworthy.

This personality test considers five factors that are mentioned in principles of language learning and teaching (cap 6), anxiety (1,2,11), motivation (2,3,12), self-steem (4,5,13), empathy (6,7,14), and the last one introvert/extrovert (8,9,15). Those factors can be selected with five different options that reflect the frequency of the given statements. After doing the test, the results are going to be chosen depending of the different answers of the person, and are going to show the grade of the different factors with the following adverbs:

Slightly, very, distinctively and Moderately.

I don’t know if the reflection has to be about the test itself or about the application of it, so I’m going to do both.

First I think this test it’s just like a “demo” because with so many factors it makes too hard to get to a possible conclusion with just few information, I think that a test like this, should have at least 50 statements/questions, only then the result have most chance to get right.

This test is not only focused on students, its centered on people in general, because the test considers factors and situations of social/and personal life but in the general way, it doesn’t center on the behavior of the student in classroom or maybe work environment.