FOAI-13 Booklet
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DECEMBER 2019 FORUM ON ASSESSMENT ISSUES FOAI-13 ITEM WRITING IV: INTEGRATED SKILLS ASSESSMENT DECEMBER 13th-14th, 2019 1 A MESSAGE FROM THE FOAI ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Mehtap İnce Esin Çağlayan Berna Akpınar Arslan Dear Participants, We would like to welcome you to the 13th FOAI event at Beykent University. We hope that this event will serve as a platform through which the needs of the participants are met by getting into the depth of the principles of integrated skills assessment. For FOAI events, it always seems to be that the more participants put into it, the more they get out of it. To this end, we would like you to fill out assessment practice forms by the due date and reflect on your own practices related to the theme of the event. We wish you inspirational one and a half days and hope that you all go back to your institutions with many new ideas to experiment with for the improvement of your assessment practices. If you have not visited the website yet, please do so at https://foaionline.wordpress.com/. There you can find all the documents relating to all of the previous events. Please also feel free to post comments, questions and suggestions about FOAI or any assessment issues on the website or email us at [email protected]. We hope to continue to welcome you or other representatives from your institutions in the future. However, we still get many people who tell us that they have not heard of FOAI; hopefully, you will all help us spread the word about these events to your contacts in Testing Teams in other universities. We would like to thank Beykent University for hosting us and we are grateful to the host team for their smooth and efficient organization. PREVIOUS FOAI EVENTS FOAI DATE INSTITUTION THEME Common Practices and Issues in Testing and Assessment of FOAI-1 February 2013 Sabancı University, İstanbul English and Possible Responses to them FOAI-2 October 2013 İstanbul Şehir University Common Practices and Issues in Assessing Productive Skills FOAI-3 March 2014 Özyeğin University, İstanbul Standardization Practices and Marker Training Reading Assessment – Issues Related to Setting the Level of FOAI-4 November 2014 Bilkent University, Ankara Reading Texts and Tasks Listening Assessment – Issues Related to Setting the Level of FOAI-5 April 2015 İzmir University of Economics Listening Texts and Tasks FOAI-6 April 2016 Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul Placement and Proficiency Exams FOAI-7 November 2016 Pamukkale University, Denizli Validity and Reliability in Assessment and Testing FOAI-8 May 2017 Karabük University, Karabük Speaking Assessment Social Sciences University of FOAI-9 November 2017 Designing Speaking Rubrics Ankara Eastern Mediterranean FOAI-10 April 2018 Item Writing I: Assessing Language Use University, Northern Cyprus FOAI-11 December 2018 İstanbul Medipol University Item Writing II: Assessing Reading FOAI-12 April 2019 TED University, Ankara Item Writing III: Assessing Listening FOAI-13 December 2019 Beykent University, İstanbul Item Writing IV: Integrated Skills Assessment If you wish to see your institution’s name here, please let us know and ask your FOAI-14 SPRING 2020 administrators to confirm their interest in an email to [email protected] 2 FORUM ON ASSESSMENT ISSUES RATIONALE/BACKGROUND The Assessment Team of Sabancı University, School of Languages set up the first FOAI for representatives from a range of universities in Turkey and North Cyprus to come together to discuss assessment issues in university foundation EAP/preparatory programs. The forum aims to take a hands-on approach to the practical issues related to assessment work, with a view to complement the formal presentation of papers or workshops to be found at other professional events such as conferences, seminars, and workshops. Although the forum was initiated by Sabancı University School of Languages, it has become a regular event, hosted by different institutions. AIMS OF THE FORUM The forum was set up specifically for representatives from the assessment teams of a range of foundation/preparatory programs in English medium universities in Turkey. The forum aims to provide an opportunity for different state, foundation and private universities within the Turkish context to come together in order to: ▪ discuss issues concerning the design, development, and administration of low and high stakes exams; ▪ share practices, experiences, ideas, and challenges faced relevant to testing, evaluation, and assessment related issues from diverse contexts; ▪ increase awareness of the activities and approaches to assessment and evaluation of learning in other programs; ▪ build relationships and links between the assessment teams in different institutions; ▪ exchange ideas on how members can cooperate in order to improve testing and assessment practices in their institutions. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please visit our website https://foaionline.wordpress.com/ 3 A MESSAGE FROM THE HOST TEAM Dear FOAI-13 Participants, As members of Beykent University English Language School, we are delighted to welcome you to the FOAI-13 meeting in İstanbul on December 13-14. During this remarkable two-day event, our theme will be ‘’Item Writing IV: Integrated Skills Assessment” and we will focus on different issues related to this theme. We are excited to share experiences and ideas, discuss new trends and assessment related issues together with you. We are looking forward to having you here at Beykent University soon! Sincerely, BU School of Foreign Languages - FOAI 13 host team 4 PARTICIPANTS 1 Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Ezgi Uslu [email protected] 2 Altınbaş University Sena Zeytinci Akçay [email protected] 3 Anadolu University Mehmet Gönen [email protected] 4 Antalya Bilim University Ayşe Öncel [email protected] 5 Atılım University Alper Şahin [email protected] 6 ATU University of Science and Technology Raziye Sayılmaz [email protected] 7 Bahçeşehir University Oylum Tuğrul [email protected] 8 Beykent University Fatma Sannav [email protected] 9 Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University Ali Yılmaz [email protected] 10 Çağ University Mehmet Ekizoğlu [email protected] 11 Cappadocia University Gökçen Ünsal [email protected] 12 Çukurova University Ayşe Fırat Dalak Ataözü [email protected] 13 Kadir Has University Şule Öztekin [email protected] 14 Doğuş University Seren Arslan [email protected] 15 Eastern Mediterranean University Nazan Doğruer [email protected] 16 Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University Cem Gulenc [email protected] 17 Galatasaray University Pelin Çetin Kırış [email protected] 18 Hasan Kalyoncu University Rabia Kulpu [email protected] 19 Ibn Haldun University Mahmut Ugur Arslan [email protected] 20 İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Selim Erdem [email protected] 21 İstanbul Kültür University Seda Tugce Eryilmaz [email protected] 22 İstanbul Medeniyet University Sena Sebit [email protected] 23 İstanbul Medipol University Sema Babacan [email protected] 24 İstanbul Şehir University Mehmet Akıncı [email protected] 25 İzmir Bakırçay University Mariam Shakir [email protected] 26 Maltepe University Roger Hewitt [email protected] 27 MEF University Mojca Andrejasic [email protected] 28 Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Serkan Coşkun [email protected] 29 Ondokuz Mayis University Aydan Ermiş [email protected] 30 Özyeğin University Sinem Dursun [email protected] 31 Marmara University F. Kübra Çakır [email protected] 32 Middle East Technical University Şükran Saygı [email protected] 33 TED University M. Nur Karadenizli Çilingir [email protected] 34 TOBB ETU Berkay Ündeğer [email protected] 35 University of Turkish Aeronautical Association Gökhan Yıldız [email protected] 36 Yaşar University Sinem Güral Akgül [email protected] 37 Yıldırım Beyazıt University Ömer Muhtar Akkaş [email protected] 38 Yıldız Technical University Sezgin Ballidag [email protected] HOST TEAM 39 Beykent University Mehmet Türk [email protected] 40 Beykent University Ali Can Çakar [email protected] 41 Beykent University Nurpınar Kazımlar [email protected] 42 Beykent University Fatma Sannav [email protected] 43 Beykent University Ceren Aktay Eryılmaz [email protected] 44 Beykent University Gülay Balaban Kalkan [email protected] FOAI ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE 45 İzmir University of Economics Esin Çağlayan [email protected] 46 Koç University Mehtap İnce [email protected] 47 Sabancı University Berna Akpınar Arslan [email protected] 5 PROGRAM for FOAI-13 @ BEYKENT UNIVERSITY FRIDAY, 13th December 2019 TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION ARRIVAL & WELCOME Foyer Area, D-Block 5th 09.30 – 10.00 (refreshments provided) Floor 10.00 – 10.15 OPENING REMARKS & ANNOUNCEMENTS D-501, D-Block 5th Floor WHOLE GROUP 10.15 – 11.40 Plenary: Thom Kiddle, D-501, D-Block 5th Floor Integrated Skills Assessment Foyer Area, D-Block 5th 11.40 – 12.00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK Floor FOCUS GROUP INITIAL MEETING 12.00 – 12.30 D-507, D-516, D-518 INTRODUCTIONS 12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH School Dining Hall A-Block Ground Floor 13.30 – 13.45 GROUP PHOTO Entrance 13.45 – 14.45 FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS – SESSION I D-507, D-516, D-518 Foyer Area, D-Block 5th 14.45 – 15.00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK Floor 15.00 – 16.00 FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS – SESSION II D-507, D-516, D-518 Foyer Area, D-Block 5th 16.00 – 16.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK Floor 16.15 – 17.00 FINALIZING GROUP WORK