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 Turkkan, TEASIG Coordinator
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:
9th June 2020 1700UK / 1800CET with Anna Soltyska
“Language assessment is NOT a solitary activity – On teachers and testers’ collaboration and its benefits for all stakeholders of the assessment process”
More details on the Forthcoming Events page.
Next TEASIG event:
IATEFL 2020 Pre-Conference Event – carried forward to IATEFL 2021
April 2021, Harrogate
Download the programme for the TEASIG and IPSEN SIG pre-conference event.
Download the speaker profiles and abstracts for the TEASIG and IPSEN SIG pre-conference event.
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: Glyn Jones presented on ‘Multiple choice items – What they are good for and how to write them’ on Tuesday 12th May 2020.
You can access the webinar recording here and the post-webinar Q&A responses 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.