Welcome to TEASIG, the Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group of IATEFL.
TEASIG is a professional body for the needs and interests of members of IATEFL in connection with testing, evaluation and assessment in all areas of English language teaching. TEASIG aims to connect teachers and experts worldwide
TEASIG is a part of IATEFL, so in order to become a member of TEASIG you first have to become a member of IATEFL and select TEASIG as your special interest group during the registration process.
This site is your door to TEASIG and your way of connecting to people, resources and ideas across our fields.
Join TEASIG and find out more!
Mehvar Ergun and Ceyda Mutlu, TEASIG Joint Coordinators
STOP PRESS!!!
New publication: The Best of TEASIG Volume 1
We are delighted to announce the publication of this collection of selected articles from TEASIG Newsletters between 1992 and 2001.
We hope you enjoy reading (and reminiscing) and we’ll be back with news on Volume 2 soon.
Open The Best of TEASIG Volume 1
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Next TEASIG webinar:
Details of webinars in 2020 will appear here and on the Forthcoming Events page.
Next TEASIG event:
We regret to announce the cancellation of the TEASIG – ELT Council of Malta event from 24 – 25 January 2020 due to low registration numbers.
IATEFL 2020 Pre-Conference Event
April 17th 2020, Manchester
Details coming soon.
Latest TEASIG event: IATEFL 2019 Pre-Conference Event
1 April 2019, IATEFL Annual Conference, Liverpool
PCE presentations now available in Recent Events!
“Authenticity in Assessment of Productive Skills”
- What is authenticity and why is it important in test task design?
- How do we match the skills from authentic communication with test constructs?
- How do we balance authenticity and practicality in test development?
- How do we as teachers source and introduce our students to authentic tasks?
- Using the CEFR what productive skills are important in maintaining authenticity?
- Where does authenticity fit into formative and summative assessment?
- How is authenticity and test validity linked and how can we prove it?
- Is authenticity directly linked to test usefulness and washback?
- What tools do we have to help us source authentic language?
In this two-part PCE our experts answered the questions above and more in their presentations and hands-on workshops to aid and assist teachers source and prepare their students for learning of speaking and writing language in real-world communication. They demonstrated how to integrate authenticity into both classroom assessment and larger scale test development in order to bridge the gap between what students learn and what they will use in their target language use domain – the real world that is!!
Latest TEASIG webinar
Most recent webinar: Michael Fields presented on ‘Using Item Analysis to Improve Test Reliability on Tuesday 26th November 2019.
You can access the webinar recording here.
Details of earlier webinars can be found on the Previous TEASIG webinars page.
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Want to feature in TEA Today?
IATEFL TEASIG runs a spotlight of one or two members in each issue of TEA Today. If you would like to be “interviewed”, just answer the questions on the TEA Today page and send your answers to the Editors. TEASIG Member Spotlight features will be included in forthcoming issues.