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EALTA 2020 > 2021 - 17th European association for language testing and assessment Conference - Variations on common standards


Date :  du 01-06-2021 au 06-06-2021

Lieu :  à distance

Modalité :  intégralement à distance

Organisation :  European association for language testing and assessment (EALTA)

After careful consideration of the current situation regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, the Executive Committee and the conference organising committee have made the decision to hold the 2021 annual conference in a fully online format.

Please return to EALTA's site later as the 2022 conference will be held in Budapest with a new theme and a new Call for Papers to be published in the autumn.

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Programme : 

In the field of language testing and assessment, we regularly draw on a variety of documents that have a normative and/or coherence-creating angle: codes of ethics, codes of practice, quality standards and frameworks (most notably the CEFR). They provide a host of reference points for assessment development and use that need to be interpreted and adapted to the context in every case of use. Among the relevant contextual factors that need to inform local adaptation, we find educational and assessment traditions, target-group characteristics, the scope and purpose of an assessment, the importance and impact of assessment-based decisions, and the availability of human and material resources. Relating vastly different assessments to common points of reference can help make them transparent, comparable and more accessible to external review. However, balancing local needs and more global norms and references can also bring its own tensions.

The 17th EALTA Conference invites participants to explore how local needs in our field require context-appropriate responses and motivate local adaptations of our common reference systems, and to critically reflect on resulting language assessment and testing practices. We invite proposals for conceptual and empirical papers, work-in-progress presentations, posters and symposia relating to the conference theme.

The conference theme encompasses a wide range of possible sub-themes, including, but not limited, to the following:

  • Context-appropriate assessment development
  • Innovative forms of assessment, as concerns : technology, gaming, simulation, adaptivity, special needs, etc.
  • Psychometric methods
  • Validation/justification of low and high-stakes assessments, including ethical criteria
  • Standard setting in relation to a reference system
  • Test security standards

We will also consider contributions on other topics relevant to language assessment.

Deadline for submission: 30 November 2019

Keynote speakers:

  • Marianne Nikolov is Professor Emerita of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Pécs, Hungary.
  • Judit Kormos is a Professor in Second Language Acquisition at Lancaster University.

Pre-Conference Workshops

You can choose one of the 3 workshops on offer. Limited to 25 participants per workshop.
The workshops will be held between 2pm on June 1 and 12pm on June 3, 2021.

  • Applying the Test Development Cycle to Create Test Tasks for Your Teaching Context: From Theory to Practice
  • Advanced Language Test Analysis Using Item Response Theory in R
  • Qualitative Data Analysis

SIGs

You can choose one of the 5 SIGs on offer. Limited to 25 participants per workshop.
The SIG meetings will be held on June 4 (2pm-5pm). The following groups will be holding a meeting:

  • CEFR
  • Classroom-Based Assessment
  • Assessment of Writing / Assessment for Academic Purposes
  • Migration and Integration
  • Assessing Speaking


URL :  http://www.euroexam.com/ealta-2020


mot(s) clé(s) :  langues vivantes, test, examen et concours