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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Monday, March 4 Pre-Conference Workshops Time Event 8:00am to 3:00pm Conference registration open 9:00am to Workshop 1 (Day 1): R & RStudio for Workshop 2: Constructing Measures: An 4:00pm Reproducible Language Test Analysis, Introduction to Analyzing Proficiency Test Research, and Reporting Data Using IRT with jMetrik Leaders: Geoffrey T. LaFlair, Duolingo and Leader: Troy L. Cox, Center for Language Daniel R. Isbell, Michigan State University Studies Location: Mary Gay C Location: Henry Oliver Tuesday, March 5 Pre-Conference Workshops & Events Time Event 8:00am to 7:00pm Conference registration open 9:00am to Workshop 1 (Day 2): R & RStudio for Workshop 3: Corpus-based development 4:00pm Reproducible Language Test Analysis, and validation of language tests: Using Research and Reporting corpora of and for language testing Leaders: Geoffrey T. LaFlair, Duolingo and Leaders: Darren Perrett, Cambridge Daniel R. Isbell, Michigan State University Assessment English and Brigita Séguis, Cambridge Assessment English Location: Mary Gay C Location: Henry Oliver Time Event 9:00am to 1:00pm Workshop 4: The Civil and Human Rights of Language: Guided Tour of the Atlanta Civil & Human Rights Museum Leaders: Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University and Tim McNamara, University of Melbourne Meeting Location TBD Time Event 11:00am to 3:30pm ILTA Pre-Conference Executive Advisory Board Meeting Location: TBD 4:00 to Newcomer & Strategic Planning Session 5:15pm Location: Decatur B CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Tuesday, March 5 Time Event 5:15 to Alan Davies Lecture 6:45pm Bringing tests to justice: can we make a difference? Dr. Catherine Elder, University of Melbourne Sponsored by the British Council Location: Decatur B 7:00 to 8:30pm Opening Reception Historic DeKalb Courthouse (101 East Court Square, Decatur) Wednesday, March 6 Time Event 7:15 to 5:00pm Conference registration open 7:30 to Latin American Association of Language Testing & Assessment Meeting 8:30am Location: Decatur B Concurrent Sessions: Demonstrations Time Mary Gay C Henry Oliver Decatur A 8:00 to Automated essay scoring: Talk2Me Jr: A Digital Personalized language 8:30am An objective support to Language and Literacy learning as language human raters Assessment Tool assessment: A case study of two large learner corpora Matthew Kyle Martin, Samantha Dawn McCormick, Burr Settles, Masato Matthew Wilcox Hyunah Kim, Jeanne Sinclair, Hagiwara, Erin Gustafson, Clarissa Lau, Megan Vincett, Chris Brust Chris Barron, Eunice Eunhee Jang 8:30 to Opening Symposium: Local needs and global priorities in ensuring fair test use: synergies 10:35am and tension in balancing the two perspectives Jamie Mark Dunlea, Jessica Wu, Yan Jin, Wei Wang, Haoran Yang, Quynh Nguyen, Barry O'Sullivan Location: Decatur B CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday, March 6 Time Event 10:35 to Coffee Break 10:55am Location: Lobby Concurrent Sessions: Papers Time Mary Gay C Henry Oliver Decatur A Decatur B 10:55 to Understanding Reading Self- Rater cognition and Test Consequence 11:25am teacher educators’ Concept and the role of on Rural Chinese language Reading individual attributes Students: assessment literacy Achievement in in rating speaking Investigating practices while Monolingual and performances Learner Washback training pre-service Multilingual of National College English teachers in Students: A Cross- Entrance English Chile Panel Multiple- Exam Group SEM Analysis Salomé Villa Larenas Christopher Douglas Kathrin Eberharter Yangting Wang, Barron Mingxia Zhi 11:30am Using the Language What did the The Effect of Raters’ Examining to Assessment Literacy Reading Assessment Perception of Task Washback on 12:00pm Survey with an Miss? Complexity on Rater Learning from a Under Researched Severity in a Second Sociocultural Population: The Language Perspective: The Case of Uzbekistan Performance-based Case of a Graded EFL Teachers Oral Approach to English Communication Test Language Testing in Hong Kong David Lawrence Elizabeth Lee Yongkook Won Chi Lai Tsang Chiesa 12:00 to Lunch Break on your own 1:30pm Language Testing Editorial Board Meeting, Location: Henry Oliver CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday, March 6 Concurrent Sessions: Works in Progress 1:30 to 3:00pm Location: Decatur A 1. “That’s a waste of time, going back and reading the text again!” – Cognitive processes in an integrated summary writing task Sonja Zimmermann 2. Studying item difficulty. Insights from a multilingual foreign language assessment Katharina Karges 3. Development of Scales for the Assessment of Young Learners Functional Writing Proficiency Gustaf Bernhard Uno Skar, Lennart Joelle 4. Investigating the Interactiveness of IELTS Academic Writing Tasks and Their Washback on EFL Teachers’ Test Preparation Practices Parisa Safaei, Shahrzad Saif 5. The methods dealing with dependent effect sizes in a meta-analysis: a review in reading research area Jingxuan Liu, Xiaoyun Zhang, Hongli Li, Xinyuan Yang 6. Towards the Democratisation of the Assessment of English as a Lingua Franca Sheryl Cooke 7. Understanding Young Learners’ Spoken Academic Language Development through Analyzing Oral Proficiency Test Responses Megan Montee, Mark Chapman 8. Validating the use of a web-based rating system for oral proficiency interviews Jing Xu, Anne Clarke, Andrew Mullooly, Claire McCauley 9. Test preparation materials for the Test of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES): Validating materials for adult literacy and numeracy Claire Elizabeth Reynolds 10. Students’ and Teachers’ Perception and Use of Diagnostic Feedback Hang Sun 11. Effects of Reader and Task Variables in L2 Reading Comprehension and Speed Toshihiko Shiotsu 12. The Effect of Genre on Linguistic Features of Source-Based Essays by Tertiary Learners: Implications for Construct Validity Sukran Saygi, Zeynep Aksit 13. Investigation of Social Justice Violation in an English Proficiency Test for PhD Candidates in Iran Masood Siyyari, Negar Siyari CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday, March 6 Concurrent Sessions: Works in Progress 1:30 to 3:00pm Location: Mary Gay C 14. Developing a Digital Simulation to Measure L2 Intercultural, Pragmatic and Interactional Competence: Initial Pilot Results Linda Forrest, Ayşenur Sağdıç, Julie Sykes, Margaret Malone 15. Using unscripted spoken texts in college-level L2 Mandarin assessment Xian Li 16. LAL: what is it to teachers in their classrooms? Sonia Patricia Hernandez-Ocampo 17. A case study of evidence-centered exam design and listening: Washback from placement test development to program tests, KSAs, and pedagogy Gerriet Janssen, Olga Inés Gómez 18. Development of an ITA Assessment Instrument based on English as a Lingua Franca Heesun Chang 19. Applying a summative assessment speaking test for formative assessment gains: The case of a computerized speaking test in Israel Tziona Levi, Ofra Inbar-Lourie 20. Creating a Socially Responsible Language Diagnostic Tool to Support At-Risk Students at a Canadian Technical College Nathan J Devos 21. Examining values and potential consequences in argument-based approaches to TOPIK-Speaking validation process Soohyeon Park, Gwan-Hyeok Im, Dongil Shin 22. Aviation English Proficiency Test Design for a Group of Brazilian Military Pilots: A Case Study Ana Lígia Barbosa de Carvalho e Silva Time Event 3:00 to Coffee Break 3:20pm Location: Lobby 3:20 to Symposium: Language Proficiency Assessment and Social Justice in the US K-12 5:20pm Educational Context Mark Chapman, Margo Gottlieb, Keira Ballantyne, H. Gary Cook, Paula Winke, Todd Ruecker, Micheline Chalhoub-Deville Location: Decatur B CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday, March 6 Concurrent Sessions: Papers Time Mary Gay C Henry Oliver Decatur A 3:20 to Investigating the validity of Assessing Workplace Justifying the Use of 3:50pm a writing scale and rubric Listening Comprehension of Scenario-Based Assessment using a corpus-based Thai Undergraduates in to Measure Complex analysis of grammatical English as an Asian Lingua Constructs of features Franca Contexts Communicative Language Competence Susie Kim Panjanit Chaipuapae Heidi Liu Banerjee 3:55 to French Learners’ Use of Item-level analyses of a Differential Item 4:25pm Sources in an Integrated listening for implicature Functioning in GEPT-Kids Writing Assessment Task test: Evidence against an Listening implicature subskill construct? Anna Mikhaylova Stephen O’Connell Linyu Liao 4:30 to Formative Assessment Content-rich videos in Raters’ Perceptions and 5:00pm through Automated academic L2 listening tests: Operationalization of Corrective Feedback in A validity study (In)Authenticity in Oral Second Language Writing: Proficiency Tests A Case Study of Criterion Giang Thi Linh Hoang Roman Olegovich Lesnov John Dylan Burton 5:05 to Individualized Feedback to Examining the effects of Investigating variance 5:35pm Raters: Effects on Rating foreign-accented lectures sources and score Severity, Inconsistency, and on an academic listening dependability of an ITA Bias in the Context of test at the item level using speaking test for construct- Chinese as a Second differential item related validity and Language Writing functioning analysis fairness: A mixed method Assessment G-theory study Jing Huang, Gaowei Chen Sun-Young Shin, Ryan Ji-young Shin Lidster, Senyung Lee 6:45pm Networking Dinners (advance registration required) Meet in Lobby CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Thursday, March 7 Time Event 7:15am to Conference registration open 5:00pm Concurrent Sessions: Demonstrations Time Mary Gay C Henry Oliver Decatur A 8:00 to Integrating Social Justice Development and Use of BEST