University English Centres Australia (UECA) and The University of Queensland's Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE) present the 2019 Assessment Symposium.
The Assessment Symposium is supported by the English Australia Assessment SIG and aims to bring together ELT professionals in order to share best practice in English Language Assessment and provide quality opportunities for learning.
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The host institution is the University of Queensland's Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE) |
This full day event features a range of concurrent speakers presenting on different aspects of English language assessment.
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| 8:30 - 9:15 (45 mins) |
Registration Coffee/Tea served Room: Level 2 Foyer – Sir Llew Edwards Building #14 |
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| 9:15 - 9:30 (15 mins) |
Acknowledgement of Country Welcome: UECA and UQ-ICTE Room: 212 Auditorium  Video - Meet the Presenter |
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Session 1 9:40 - 10:20 (40 mins) |
Session 1A Putting the horse before the cart: Writing specifications for General English tests Megan Yucel UQ-ICTE  Download Presentation Video - Meet the Presenter |
Session 1B Benchmarking EAP Written Assessment with the CEFR Thomas Roche Southern Cross University Download Presentation Video - Full Presentation Video - Meet the Presenter |
Session 1C Course reflective listening assessments Jarrod Tebb Swinburne View Presentation (Tablet) Video - Meet the Presenter |
Session 1D Student Self-Assessment and 21st Century Skills Ana Bratkovic NEAS Video - Meet the Presenter |
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10:20 - 10:50 (30 mins) |
Morning Tea Level 2 Outdoor Atrium |
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Session 2 10:50 - 11:30 (40 mins) |
Session 2A Perfect Match: Writing 'Matching' Type Items for Listening Assessment Vicki Bos UQ-ICTE |
Session 2B TEQSA – Meeting the ELICOS 2018 Standards for Direct Entry programs Q&A Session Please submit your questions here. Gary Brook Director, Assessment and Investigations Group TEQSA |
Session 2C Implementing TBLA Denise Flipo RMIT Training Download Presentation |
Session 2D Assessing Writing: Is the ship watertight? Philip Godber UTS Insearch Download Presentation Video - Full Presentation Video - Meet the Presenter |
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| Session 3 11.35 - 12:25 (50 mins) |
Plenary Sponsored by Pearson Featured Speaker – Pauline Cullen The Inconvenient Truth about Test WritingRoom: 212 Auditorium |
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| 12:25 - 13:15 (50 mins) |
Lunch Room: Terrace Room 613 |
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| Session 4 13:15 - 13:55 (40 mins) |
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| Session 5 14:00 - 14:40 (40 mins) |
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Session 6 14:45 - 15:45 (60 mins) |
Featured Speaker – Professor Barry O’Sullivan Head of Assessment Research and Development at the British Council Aligning EAP Tests to the CEFRHow hard can it be?Live ZOOM Presentation with Q&AVideo - Full Presentation Room: 212 Auditorium |
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15:45 - 16:00 (60 mins) |
Closing Remarks Ana Bratkovic General Manager, NEAS |
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16:00 - 17:00 (60 mins) |
Social Event Room: Terrace Room 613 |
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Designing Test Items to assess Reading Skills
Location: Room 217
We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a limited number of participants to attend an Item Writer Workshop conducted by Pauline Cullen. Pauline is freelance professional test writer, item writer trainer and author.
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Pauline Cullen is a freelance professional test writer and item writer trainer with over twenty years’ experience in writing materials for high stakes exams including IELTS, CAE and CPE in Australia and the UK. She has led item writing teams to produce quality test items by providing team members with meaningful feedback on their work. |
This is a practical, hands on, item writer training workshop presented by a skilful and experienced test writer and item writer trainer. The workshops are from either 9:00am - 12:00pm (morning session) OR 2:00pm - 5:00pm (afternoon session) but some preparation is required prior to attending the workshops.
Pre-workshop Preparation Tasks
- Signed-up participants will be sent a text to be used in developing an assessment at a specified level (e.g. B2) for a specific purpose (e.g. proficiency testing)
- Participants also receive guidance on specific task types to use
- Participants then develop their own test items for the text and submit them by a specified date to the presenter who will use the participants own work (anonymously) as input for the workshop
Workshop
The workshop will aim to address questions such as the following:
- Why was this text chosen? What makes it suitable for use in this test?
- What edits needed to be made to the original text before using it in this session?
- Which participant produced items are working well?
- Why is this?
- What processing of text is required to successfully answer these items?
- Which participant produced items are not working well?
- Why?
- Can they be re-written so that they do work?
- What generalisations about writing specific item types can we make?
- Time for participants to have a go at writing/editing additional items and giving each other feedback
| Date: | Saturday, 13 July 2019 - Sunday, 14 July 2019 |
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| Place: | The University of Queensland's Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE) |
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Participants planning to attend the event please note the following budget university campus accommodation options:
- Single bedroom with shared bathroom inclusive of breakfast - from $80 per night
- Single bedroom with private en-suite inclusive of breakfast - from $95 per night
- St Johns
- Women's
- Emmanuel
Accommodation bookings are directly through these links and not provided by UECA or The University of Queensland's Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE).
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