Session Title: 

Language Assessment Literacy for Practitioners

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Abstract:  

Language Assessment has been a relatively untapped area of language education, which keeps posing challenges for the practitioners in their teaching and assessment practices. This session aims at improving language assessment literacy of the participants through exposure to and discussion of key concepts in language assessment as well as production of assessment tasks as the final outcome.  We aim at exploring the key concepts of and common challenges in language assessment (e.g. reliability, validity, types/purposes of assessment tasks, principles for assessment of receptive and productive language skills, integration of educational technology in classroom-based language assessment ) within a collaborative network of practitioners from diverse educational contexts. As an overall aim, this session is hoped to create a professional learning community who feels better-equipped in language assessment literacy to cope with assessment related puzzles and challenges.

Target audience:

This session might be of interest to EFL / ESL teachers and educators who would like to enhance their language assessment literacy and share their assessment practices both in classroom and online settings. 

Session objectives: 

By the end of this hands-on session, the participants are expected to enhance their language assessment literacy by :

• learning about or revisiting key concepts in language assessment 
• discussing the implications of the key concepts in assessment of language skills
• observing examples of language assessment tasks from different settings 
• interacting with some of the leading international experts in language assessment during our weekly webinars 
• networking with other participants through asynchronous (e.g. forums, emails) and synchronous (e.g. webinars, meetings) communication
• examining digital tools and uses of educational technology for classroom-based assessment in the post-covid era.
• designing assessment tasks in line with the provided guidelines and sharing them with the other participants. 

Syllabus:

Week 1: (January 10 - 16) 

Introduction to the basics of language assessment, to our session & discussion of classroom based assessment challenges

• Purpose of Assessment

• Key concepts in assessment 

• Types of assessment and tools

• Classroom challenges in assessment

Week 2: (January 17 - 23)

Focus on Assessment of Reading & Listening Skills

Basic assessment principles 

Integration of online tools in classroom-based assessment of reading & listening skills 

Improving reliability and validity of the use of assessment tools in reading & listening skills

Week 3: (January 24 - 30)

Week 4: (January 31 - February 6)

Week 5: (February 7 - 13)
Be sure to plan time in your syllabus for wrap-up and session evaluations. Don't start a new project or topic in the last week.

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• Interactive space (group/community/forum)
• Content space (where your syllabus, readings, and videos will be)
• Live meeting space (for synchronous events/webinars)
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Moderators: Fill in the table on the page you have created for all session moderators and co-moderators. You can change or add to the list later. Co-moderators are expected to take part in the training session along with moderators.

Name (last, first)	Email address	Location  (country of residence)	Biodata  (max. 50 words)	Photo
SEVGI-SOLE , Ece	ecesevgi@gmail.com	Italy	Ece holds a Ph.D. in Language Assessment from Yeditepe University. She has experience in teaching and testing academic writing, as well as training language teachers and directing a university writing center. Currently, she is offering English language courses at the University of Milan in Italy.
GOKTURK-SAGLAM, Asli Lidice			Asli has been an English teacher in EAP settings for more than 23 years. Currently she is a postdoc researcher at the University of South Eastern University Norway. She holds a PhD in language assessment. She is an educational technologies enthusiast. Her research interests include; teacher education, educational technology, and testing and assessment.

Primary Contact: (just one, please): 

The primary contact is responsible for getting all moderators into the training session, and for communicating deadlines, special events like our live webcasts, and other information to moderators.

Ece Sevgi Sole 

Acknowledgement

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you acknowledge the following:

• I understand that session first-time moderators are required and returning moderators are encouraged to participate in the 5-week Moderators' Development Session from October 18 until November 15, 2021.

• I am available to actively engage in the EVO session I have agreed to co-moderate between January 9 and February 14, 2021. 

• I further understand that 

• EVO sessions are free of advertising and commercial sponsorship.

• EVO sessions are free and open to all

• No academic credit may be given for participation.