LTiA2018
Language Testing in Austria: Towards a Research Agenda
October 19-20, 2018, Klagenfurt
The symposium marks ten years of language test development and language testing research in Austria. In the first part of the symposium on Friday, the recently published volume on Language Testing in Austria will be presented. This will be of interest for a wider audience. The purpose of the symposium on Saturday will be to jointly work towards a research agenda for language testing in the Austrian context for the next five years. The outcome of the symposium is supposed to be a manifesto for language testing research in Austria which will be made public in an appropriate format.
Organising committee:
Günther Sigott
Hermann Cesnik
Nikola Dobrić
Research Manifesto
Book of Abstracts and Programme
Presentation 1_Bildungsstandardüberprüfung Deutsch: Kompetenzmodelle und Aufgabenentwicklung (Sandra Eibl, Silke Schwaiger & Simone Breit)
Presentation 2_Die Umsetzung der kriterialen Rückmeldung in der Bildungsstandardüberprüfung am Beispiel Lesen in Deutsch für die vierte und achte Schulstufe (Claudia Luger-Bazinger, Ursula Itzlinger-Bruneforth & Claudia Schreiner)
Presentation 3_The development of the Austrian Educational Standards Test for English Listening and Reading at grade 8 (Claudia Mewald, Dave Allan, Andrea Kulmhofer & Klaus Siller)
Presentation 4_e development of the Austrian Educational Standards Test for English Speaking and Writing at grade 8 (Claudia Mewald, Andrea Kulmhofer & Klaus Siller)
Presentation 5_Deutsch als Unterrichtssprache: Das Konzept der schriftlichen Reife- und Diplomprüfung (Jürgen Struger)
Presentation 6_Die Standardisierte Reife- und Diplomprüfung (SRDP) Deutsch als Unterrichtssprache: Methodenkonzept und Hauptergebnisse der Feldtestung (Hermann Cesnik & Günther Sigott)
Presentation 7_Delivering reform in a high stakes context: from content-based assessment to communicative and competence-based assessment (Carol Spöttl, Kathrin Eberharter, Franz Holzknecht, Benjamin Kremmel & Matthias Zehentner)
Presentation 8_Ensuring sustainability and managing quality in producing the standardized matriculation examination in the foreign languages (eresa Weiler & Doris Frötscher)
Presentation 9_Entwicklung von Testsystemen in den klassischen Sprachen (Fritz Lošek, Peter Glatz, Hermann Niedermayr & Irmtraud Weyrich-Zak)
Presentation 10_Aspekte der Implementierung der neuen Testsysteme in den klassischen Sprachen (Michael Sörös, Martin Seitz, Renate Glas, Walter Kuchling, Renate Oswald & Andrea Lošek)
Presentation 11_Developing rating instruments for the assessment of Academic Writing and Speaking at Austrian university English departments (Armin Berger & Helen Heaney)
Presentation 12_Österreichisches Sprachdiplom Deutsch (Manuela Glaboniat & Carmen Peresich)
Presentation 13_Beurteilerübereinstimmung und schwer zu beurteilende Texte im Vergleich Training und Bildungsstandardüberprüfung in Deutsch auf der vierten Schulstufe (Roman Freunberger, Simone Breit & Marcel Illetschko)
Presentation 14_On the discrepancy between rater-perceived and Empirical Item Diculty. Standardsetting for the receptive skills in the Austrian Educational Standards Tests for English (Günther Sigott & Hermann Cesnik)
Presentation 15_The role of error in assessing English Writing in the Austrian Educational Standards Baseline Test (Florian Pibal, Günther Sigott & Hermann Cesnik)
Presentation 16_The washback of standardised testing in the subject English at lower secondary level (Claudia Mewald, Dave Allan & Andrea Kulmhofer-Bommer)
Presentation 17_Cognitive processes as predictors of item diculty in the Austrian Educational Standards Baseline Test for English Reading at grade 8 (Klaus Siller & Ulrike Kipman)
Presentation 18_Analyzing the 2016 standardized matriculation exam results in the foreign languages: post-test analysis (Doris Frötscher, Michael Themessl-Huber & Theresa Weiler)
Presentation 19_Matura washback on the classroom testing of Reading in English (Doris Frötscher)
Presentation 20_How do test takers write a blog? A corpus-based study of linguistic features in performances based on the task type Blog (Michael Maurer)
Presentation 21_Reading strategies in the standardized Austrian matriculation examination for English (Franz Holzknecht)
Presentation 22_Validating multiple choice Language in Context items (Kathrin Eberharter)
Presentation 23_Evaluating the eectiveness of a training program for double-raters (Kathrin Eberharter, Franz Holzknecht & Benjamin Kremmel)
Presentation 24_Examining the eect of partner choice in peer-to-peer assessment (Matthias Zehentner)
Presentation 25_Annäherung der Transformationsfunktion von Logit Measures auf Fair Measures im Multifacetten-Raschmodell (MFRM) durch logistische Regression. Eine Simulationsstudie (Hermann Cesnik)
Presentation 26_Rating scale validation for the assessment of spoken English at tertiary level (Armin Berger)
Presentation 27_Operationalizing expeditious reading strategies in tests of English as a foreign language (Helen Heaney)
Presentation 28_A criterion-referenced approach to the Vocabulary Levels Test: validating form B of the 2000 and 3000 word levels, and the Academic Wordlist (Hans Platzer)
Presentation 29_Rater Cognition and Rating-relevant Text Features (Errors) – An Example of Corpus-based Score Validation (Nikola Dobric)
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