Abstracts Archive

Little research has been produced to evaluate the comparability of alignment claims of tests of different languages that target the same levels of the Common European Framework of Reference. This presentation describes an innovative procedure to put standard-setting results for reading tasks in Engl...

Developing comparable tasks and tests across multiple languages poses a challenge for language testing organizations in how they ensure that tasks are developed consistently across languages to ensure equity. However, the literature is limited in addressing the effectiveness of task developer traini...

The Handbook, published in April 2022 by leading players in the field of language teaching and assessment: the British Council, UKALTA,EALTA and  ALTE, and is available online. The Handbook provides practical and accessible guidance to assist with the process of CEFR alignme...

Educational and professional assessment of knowledge and skills have been strongly associated with 'standards'. The use of standards or proficiency benchmarks in language assessment in test-driven systems, broadly speaking, presupposes at least a degree of 'buying-in' on the part of test-takers and ...

This presentation examines the results of both surveys and interviews of raters of a multi-language, large-scale assessment. By examining rater perceptions both widely, via a questionnaire and narrowly, via individual interviews, the study explores the questions: do raters using the same scale have ...

Achieving a common understanding of standards, level descriptors, curriculum objectives, marking schemes or assessment criteria amongst professionals of different languages has long been an issue which has made training necessary prior to the implementation of any new curriculum, programme or examin...

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In  2021, the Interagency Language Roundtable revised its Skill Level Descriptions for Proficiency to focus on ability rather than traits (Purpura, 2016) and move toward measuring effective communication, focusing more on task, meaning, and contextual appropriateness. Efforts were made to remov...