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Conference Day 1 March 18, 2015
Time
Location 1
8:00am-5:00pm
Conference Registration
Churchill Court
8:00am-5:00pm
Publishers’ exhibit
Churchill Court
8:45-9:00am
Welcome to LTRC + Intro to
Messick Lecture
Churchill Ballroom
9:00-10:00am
Messick Memorial Lecture: Susan
Brookhart
Churchill Ballroom
Location 2
Location 3
Location 4
Sponsored by ETS TOEFL
10:00-10:35am
10:35-12:00
Break
Churchill Court
Group Photo
Churchill Ballroom
Paper Session 1
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
Gu, Yan, & Tian:
Impact of an
International English
Proficiency Test on
Young Learners—
Voices from learners
and parents
Tsagari & Vogt:
Assessment Literacy
of Foreign Language
Teachers: Research,
Challenges and
Future Prospects
Llosa, Malone,
Wei, Donavan,
& Stevens:
Comparability
of writing tasks
in TOEFL iBT
and university
writing courses:
Insights from
students and
instructors
Wagner, Chen,
Park, Stone, &
Jang: Evaluating
and Revising a
Reading Test
Blueprint
through
Multiple
Methods: The
Case of the
CELPIP-G
First presenter is the session chair
10:35-11:00
1
12:00-1:30pm
11:05-11:30
Gu & Hsieh:
Distinguishing
features in scoring
young language
students’ oral
performances
Chapman: Task
equivalence in
writing assessment:
which task features
can and should be
controlled?
Fan & Song:
Impact and
consequences of
university-based
assessment in
China: A case
study
Elwood &
Petchko:
Development
and Validation
of a Placement
Test for a MultiPolar Graduate
Institute
11:35-12:00
Sawaki & Koizumi:
Japanese students’
and teachers’
perception and use of
score reports for two
large-scale EFL tests
Salamoura,
Guetterman &
Khalifa: Enhancing
test validation
through rigorous
mixed methods
design features
Nakatsuhara,
Inoue, Berry, &
Galaczi: A
multifaceted
study using
web-based
video
conferencing
technology in
the assessment
of spoken
language
Brau & Brooks:
Testing the right
skill: the
misapplication
of reading
scores as a
predictor of
translation
ability
Lunch
Restaurants in and
around the hotel
LAQ Editorial Board Meeting
1:30-3:00pm
Poster Session
Rossetti
Mountbatten Lane
Session Chair: Yong-Won Lee
Poster presenters are required to set
up by March 17 – after the opening
reception, but no later than 1pm on
March 18.
2
3:00-4:25pm
Paper Session 2
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
3:00-3:25
Iwashita & Vasquez:
Features of discourse
competence in IELTS
speaking task
performances at
different band levels
Phakiti: Structural
equation models of
calibration,
performance
appraisals, and
strategy use in an
IELTS Listening Test
Qian: Applying
Academic
Vocabulary
Lists to
Validating Test
Contents
Dunlop: Eye
tacking of
learner
interactions with
diagnostic
feedback on
French as a
Second
Language skill
reports
3:30-3:55
Youn: The
interlocutor effect in
paired speaking tasks
to assess interactional
competence
Cai: Producing
actionable feedback
in EFL diagnostic
assessment
Harsch &
Hartig: C-tests
outperform
Yes/No
vocabulary size
tests as
predictors of
receptive
language skills
Ballard & Lee:
Enrique, Díaz
Moreno & Baten
Suvorov: Test-takers’
Use of Visual
Information From
Context and Content
Videos in the Videobased Academic
Listening Test
Kramer &
McLean:
Comparing
aural and
written
receptive
vocabulary
knowledge of
the first 5k and
the AWL
Fleckenstein,
Leucht &
Köller: B2 or
C1?
Investigating the
equivalence of
CEFR-based
proficiency
level
classifications
4:00-4:25
Challenges of
Blended Learning
Assessments in
Network-Limited
Areas
4:25-4:50pm
Break
How Young
Children
Respond to
Computerized
Reading and
Speaking Test
Tasks
Churchill Court
3
4:50-6:20pm
Symposium Session 1
Churchill Ballroom
Fox, Baker & Laurier,
Mellow & Begg,
Zumbo & Maddox,
Slomp, & Turner
Testing as social
practice: Canada and
context in construct
representation, test
interpretation, and
arguments for
consequential validity
6:30-7:30pm
Mountbatten Salon
Professional Event #1 Publishing in
Language Assessment
Chair: Guoxing Yu
Special Sponsor: Higher Education
Press
Guoxing Yu, Executive Editor, Assessment in Education (Taylor & Francis)
Liz Hamp-Lyons, Editor, Assessing Writing (Elsevier)
James Purpura, Editor, Language Assessment Quarterly (Taylor & Francis)
April Ginther, Co-Editor, Language Testing (Sage)
Fred Davidson, Distinguished Editorial Adviser, Language Testing in Asia (Springer)
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Conference Day 2 March 19, 2015
Time
Location 1
8:30am-5pm
Conference Registration
Churchill Court
8:30am-5pm
Publishers’ exhibit
Churchill Court
8:45-9:00am
Announcements
Churchill Ballroom
9:00-10:00am
The Davies Lecture: Alister Cumming
Churchill Ballroom
Location 2
Location 3
Location 4
Sponsored by British Council
10:00-10:20
Break
10:20-11:45
Paper Session 3
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
Symposium Session 2
Papers
Papers
Symposium
Papers
10:20-10:45
Colby-Kelly:
Assessing the
unobservable: Can
AFL inform on
nascent learning in an
L2 classroom setting?
Volkov & Stone:
Empirically Derived
Rating Rubric in a
Large-Scale Testing
Context
Zhang, Shen, &
Huang
Ma: Chinese
Students’ Test
Preparation for
Success on Highstakes English
Language Tests
Saito: Junior and
Senior High School
EFL Teachers’
Practice of Formative
Assessment: A Mixed
Method Study
Wu & Wu:
Constructing a
common scale for a
multi-level test to
enhance
interpretation of
learning outcomes
10:50-11:15
Assessment for
Learning (AFL):
Teaching,
Learning and
Assessment in
the Writing
Classroom
Bai: A Students’
Perspective in a
High-stakes Test:
Attitudes,
Contributing
Factors and Test
Performance
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11:20-11:45
11:45-1:30pm
1:30-3:00pm
Winke, Lee, Walter,
Weyant,
Thirakunkovit, &
Yan: What does the
Cloze Test Really
Test? A Replication
with Eye-tracking
Data
Margolis: Factors
Contributing to
Fluency Ratings in
Classroom-based
Assessment
Xu: Language
assessment literacy
in practice: A case
study of a Chinese
university English
teacher
Lunch
ILTA Membership Meeting
Churchill Ballroom
Work in Progress
Mountbatten Salon
Session Chair: Lorena Llosa
3:00-4:25pm
Papers Session 4
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Rossetti
3:00-3:25
Knoch, Macqueen,
May, Pill, & Storch:
Transitioning from
university to the
workplace:
Stakeholder
perceptions of
academic and
professional writing
demands
Papagergiou &
Ockey: Does accent
strength affect
performance on a
listening
comprehension test
for interactive
lectures?
Park, Dunlop,
Boom, & Jang;
Kim & Billington:
Tackling the issue of
L1 influenced
pronunciation in
English as a lingua
Min & He:
Examining the effect
of DIF anchor items
on equating
invariance in
Lidster & Shin:
Developing and
Validating
AchievementBased
3:30-3:55
A mixedmethods
investigation into
the young
learners’
cognitive and
metacognitive
strategy use in
reading test
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4:00-4:25
franca communication
contexts: The case of
aviation
computer-based EFL
listening assessment
Assessments of
Student Learning
Outcomes in an
Intensive English
Program
van Naerssen:
Promoting Credible
Language Assessment
in Courts: Two
Forensic Cases
Saif, Cheng, &
Rahimi;
Yang & Wu: An
Investigation into
Cognitive
Evidence for
Validating a
Visual Literacy
Task in Listening
Assessment
High-Stakes Test
Preparation Programs
and Learning
Outcomes: A
Context-Specific
Study of Learners’
Performance on
IELTS
4:25-4:45pm
Break
Churchill Court
4:45-6:15pm
Symposia Session 3
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Purpura, Waring,
Hamp-Lyons, Green
& Hill
Stenner, O'Sullivan,
Dunlea, Sandvik, &
Geva
Roles and needs of
learning-oriented
language assessment
New Models and
Technologies for
Blurring the
Distinction between
Language Testing
and Language
Learning
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6:30-7:30pm
Mountbatten Salon
Professional Event #2 Careers in Language
Assessment
Chair: Eunice Jang
Ardeshir Geranpayeh, Cambridge English Language Assessment
Jonathan Schmidgall, Educational Testing Service
May Tan, Canadian Armed Forces
Eunice Jang, OISE/University of Toronto
Jake Stone, Paragon Testing Enterprises (University of British Columbia)
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Conference Day 3 March 20, 2015
Time
Location 1
7:30am-12:30pm
Conference Registration
Churchill Court
8am-6pm
Publishers’ exhibit
Churchill Court
8:45-9:00
Announcements
Churchill Ballroom
9:00-10:10
Cambridge/ILTA Distinguished
Achievement Award: Tim
McNamara
Churchill Ballroom
Location 2
Location 3
Location 4
Sponsored by Cambridge English
10:00-10:20
Break
10:20-11:45
Papers Session 5
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
10:20-10:45
Isaacs & Turner:
Aligning teaching,
learning, and assessment
in EAP instruction?
Stakeholders’ views,
external influences, and
researchers’
perspectives
Huhta, Alderson,
Nieminen, &
Ullakonoja:
Diagnostic profiling
of foreign language
readers and writers
Roever, Elder, & Fraser:
Validation of a webbased test of ESL
sociopragmatics
Deygers: The
concurrent and
predictive validity
of university
entrance tests
10:50-11:15
Van Gorp: Integrating
task-based language
teaching and
assessment: towards a
unified task
specification framework
Jin, Zou, & Zhang:
What CEFR Level
Descriptors Mean to
College English
Teachers and Students
in China
Ryu: Investigating a
construct of pragmatic
and communicative
language ability through
email writing tasks
Bi: Modeling the
relationships
between
construct-relevant
and -irrelevant
strategic
behaviors and
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lexico-grammar
test performance
11:20-11:45
11:45-1:15pm
1:15-2:40pm
Erickson: Large-scale
Assessment for
Learning – a
collaborative approach
Zhao, Jin, & Wang:
Detecting evidence
behind the College
English Curriculum
Requirements in
China: A mixedmethods study
Liu: Automated writing
instructional tool for
English language
learners: A case study of
WriteToLearn
Ikeda:
Investigating
constructs of L2
pragmatics
through L2
learners’ oral
discourse and
interview data
Lunch
LT Editorial Board Meeting
Rossetti
Papers Session 6
Churchill Ballroom A
Churchill Ballroom B
Mountbatten A
1:15-1:40
Boraie (TESOL)
Caudwell &
O’Sullivan: Can
planning at the
functional level affect
test score?
Xi: Language constructs
revisited for practical test
design, development and
validation
Dunlea & Fairbairn:
Investigating the
impact of language
background on the
rating of spoken and
written performances
Wolf & Faulkner-Bond:
A Review of the Content
and Statistical Qualities
of Three English
Language Proficiency
Assessments
The construct of
language assessment
literacy as perceived by
foreign language
teachers in a specific
context
1:45-2:10
Inbar-Lourie & Levi:
Implementing formative
classroom assessment
initiatives: What
language assessment
literacy knowledge is
required?
10
2:15-2:40
2:40-3:00
Break
3:00-4:30
Symposia Session 4
So, Zapata, Evanini,
Tao, Luce, & Battistini:
Development of
innovative assessment
tasks to measure spoken
language abilities of
young English learners
Volkov & Stone:
Analysis of NormReferencing Modifiers
as a Component of
Rating Rubrics
Ginther, Yan, & Potts:
The relationship between
TOEFL and GPA: the
case of Chinese students
Mountbatten A
Mountbatten B
Rossetti
Schoonen, Schmitt,
Kremmel, Jarvis, &
Segalowitz
Wu, Qi, Han, Liu &
Wei
Weigle, Deane,
Geranpayyeh, Suzuki,
Davis & Ginther
Vocabulary in
assessment: what do we
mean and what do we
assess?
4:35-5:35
Debate
Churchill Ballroom
5:35-5:45
Closing
Churchill Ballroom
6:30-10:00
Banquet and Awards
Hart House
The Evaluation of
School-based EFL
Teaching and
Learning in China
Applications of
automated scoring tools
for student feedback and
learning
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