SESSION 4D

Philip Godber, UTS Insearch
Towards best practice in assessment

Abstract
In late 2014, UTS Insearch engaged the expertise of the Language Testing Research Centre (LTRC) at the University of Melbourne. Insearch’s aims were to have a more robust assessment program, to increase the assessment-related skills of its test writers, and to ensure appropriate exit standards for entry to foundation, diploma and university degree courses.

This presentation looks at some of the achievements of the three-year collaboration with LTRC, particularly the processes and procedures that have been implemented to strengthen Insearch’s assessment program, and the verification of exit standards that took place.

Bio
Philip Godber has 34 years’ experience in the English Language Teaching industry, in Australia and Hong Kong.

He began teaching EAP at Insearch in 1994 and worked on the first Direct Entry program to UTS in 1997. More recently, he was Senior Editor of the Academic English curriculum project and curriculum review project at UTS: Insearch. Currently the ELT Curriculum Officer at UTS: Insearch, Philip is responsible for test writing, analysis and validation, and for the maintenance of the Academic English Program delivered in Sydney and at overseas centres in China, Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia and South Korea.