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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:18
Here are some of the sessions on testing and assessment that can be viewed live or looked through( see the programme). You can express your opinion and share your impression.
Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:22
#2
Teacher Certification
Presented By Ismael Garrido - Convenor, Judith Hudson, Armando Salinas
Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:29
#3
Cardiff Online
Empowering teachers as testers
Presented By Christine Coombe
Session Details
As testers, our aim is to involve teachers in all phases of testing, at the very least to increase their understanding of the place of assessment in the teaching/learning process and to gain their cooperation in promoting transparency. The presenter will set this topic in context and present useful techniques for developing teachers as testers.
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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:40
#4
Cardiff Online
SIMTEST: a web-based component in an EFL placement test battery
Presented By Mick Sumbling, Pablo Sanz
Session Details
Sumbling Mick
SIMTEST: a web-based component in an EFL placement test battery
SIMTEST is an online test that delivers C-tests and multiple-choice items using computer-adaptive testing (CAT) technology as the first component of a placement test battery. Newly-enrolling students are classified in terms of CEFR levels before being placed on the most appropriate courses. This talk describes the use and advantages of SIMTEST in its institutional context at a university language centre.
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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:44
#5
Cardiff Online
Assessing a learner's level of spoken English
Presented By Sue Davies, Vincent Smidowicz
Session Details
Through practical tasks, participants will be able to reflect on the issues influencing the reliable assessment of spoken English proficiency. Solutions to these issues will be demonstrated through how City & Guilds seeks to balance the reliability and validity of spoken English tests. The workshop focuses on interlocutor skills and is appropriate for any teacher wanting to test spoken English.
About Sue Davies
Vincent Smidowicz (standing in for Sue Davies, unfortunately injured and unable to present)
Vincent Smidowicz has worked in ELT for more than thirty years as teacher, teacher trainer and academic director. He also examines for a number of boards including City & Guilds and has been closely involved in the development and support of the International Spoken ESOL test and Spoken English for Business. Like Sue Davies, Vincent has presented City & Guilds tests to teachers in many different countries and at IATEFL conferences since 2000.
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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:48
#6
The IATEFL Pecha Kucha Evening with Lindsay Clandfield
Session Details
Pearson Longman and Pearson Language Tests are proud to sponsor the IATEFL Pecha Kucha evening hosted by Lindsay Clandfield.
Following the success of last year we are repeating the event.
This year's theme is "A Magical Mystery Tour of English Language Teaching". New speakers and new topics but the rules remain the same: each speaker is allowed a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds, giving a total presentation time of six minutes and forty seconds before the next speaker is up. The result is a fantastic informative and entertaining evening!
This year's line-up includes Lindsay Clandfield, Jim Scrivener, Nicky Hockly, Ben Goldstein, Sue Kay, Pete Sharma, Peter Moor, Mike Mayor, Hania Kryszewska and more!
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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:53
#7
Evaluating the success of an elementary podcast project
Presented By David Forbes
Session Details
"A 20-minute podcast magazine for elementary learners - you must be mad!" This was the opinion of some when we launched the British Council Elementary podcasts in June 2008. This session will discuss the pedagogic rationale behind the project and report back on the various ways we have tried to evaluate the podcasts and the lessons we have learnt.
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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 19:56
#8
Assessing Listening Comprehension of Young Learners
Presented By Margit Kirss
Session Details
In an EFL classroom, listening comprehension especially with young learners seems to be sometimes relatively difficult to assess. In this workshop I will introduce formative ways to assess listening comprehension. All participants will have a chance to go through the tasks themselves and they will be given a chance to share their experience in this matter.
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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 20:00
#9
Testing and assessment of young learners in mixed ability classes
Presented By Sanja Wagner
Session Details
How to design valid test formats to assess the progress in language learning and the level of young learner's communicative competence in mixed ability classes? By presenting examples of criteria based tasks for different skills related to CEFR levels for beginners, including speaking and mediation, I will show how to facilitate the completion of the task for the struggling learners.
About Sanja Wagner
I teach at the state comprehensive school in the north of Darmstadt near Frankfurt. I'm the head of the English department. Beside teaching English and German, I do a lot of cross-curricular work and project learning in elective subjects. I was involved in a project on how to improve the literacy skills at the Institute for in-service teaching in Frankfurt (Amt für Lehrerbildung) for five years. My special interest is to develop frameworks for improving reading strategies and fostering self-assessment with the help of checklists taken from CEFR and rubrics. As a member of BAG/GFE ( a network of professionals in teaching English chaired by dr.h.c. Christoph Edelhoff) and through collaboration with Diesterweg publishers I do a lot of workshops on the implementation of CEFR and European Language Portfolio in Germany as well as on how to foster learner autonomy and competence based teaching and learning. From 2003 to 2006 I coordinated a school development project on this issue ( Cross-cultural-creative-learning-initiative: in short "eurobrain") Through this project I met Leni Dam and Hanne Thomsen, who gave me lots of incetnives for my work. At the moment I am developing portfolio assessment sheets to go with the new course book Notting Hill Gate, published by Diesterweg, as well as test formats. I have already presented twice at IATEFL and once at TEA-SIG event in Croatia in 2007.
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Wagner-Summary.doc Dialang scales-extract.doc links to the tests.doc All scales CEFR.DOC 
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Mon, 04/27/2009 - 23:54
#10
Dear Olga :
I think you have selected very good sessions that can help us to have in mind all the skills our students have to master and all the support they need.Listening,speaking and communicative competence among others.I didn't have the opportunity to read all the support materials but I will do it during this month.
Thanks for your great initiative.
Best regards
Marcela-V
Testing and assessment of young learners in mixed ability classes
Presented By Sanja Wagner
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