Workshop 2: Applying the CEFR to Rating and Standard Setting: Practical Calibration and Judgement Exercises.
This complements Workshop 1 but can also stand alone. It focuses on the use of the CEFR in rating, benchmarking, and standard setting, which has a practical but not statistical approach. The core focus is using the CEFR as a framework for rating productive skills, standard‑setting judgements, and ensuring consistency across raters and tasks.
Workshop 1: From CEFR Descriptors to Task Design: Making Construct‑Driven Decisions
People in assessment often use the CEFR but feel uncertain about how to translate broad descriptors into actual test tasks, especially in productive skills. This session gives them a systematic way of going from the CEFR to practical design choices. The core focus is on how to interpret CEFR descriptors (including the Companion Volume) for receptive and productive skills and convert them into test tasks that operationalise the level consistently.
Please note that in combining Workshop 1 with Workshop 2, participants get a coherent journey from: Construct → Task → Rating → Standard setting, however it is possible to attend only one workshop without feeling lost.
Who is the tutor?
The course will be presented by Jane Lloyd, a Senior Research Manager at Cambridge University Press and Assessment. Her main responsibilities are researching integrated learning and assessment practices in the classroom, working on large-scale educational reform projects with ministries and NGOs, and working for ALTE. Her work for ALTE is to support other national language test providers. This includes advising and training in standard setting, statistical analysis of items, analysis of rater performance, delivering pre-conference and online courses and training in assessment, and supporting exam boards with bespoke training and mentoring. She has a degree in Linguistics, a DELTA, MAs in Linguistics and TESOL, and in Language Testing, and is completing her PhD in Language Testing from CRELLA.
Can several people from the same organisation join this course?
For group bookings, ALTE advises a maximum of three places per organisation.
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Please note that a minimum number of 4 people need to register for the course for it to take place.
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