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9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Workshop 1
Using Verbal
Reports in Studies of
Language Assessment
Professor Alister Cumming
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
CSULA: King Hall Room 4013
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Workshop 2
Using and Reflecting
on Language
Test Specifications
Professor Fred Davidson
Division of English as an International Language
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Invited Talk
A
Teacher-Verification Study of Speaking and
Writing
Prototype Tasks for a New TOEFL
Professor Alister Cumming
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Papers by UCLA and CSULA Students
Development of a
Web-Based Japanese
Listening Placement
Exam
Tim Farnsworth & Yuko Haga
UCLA
Testing Accommodation and
the Americans with
Disabilities Act--An Update
Lisa Mahrer
CSULA
A review of the California
Adult Student
Assessment System
David Gorman
CSULA
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Invited Talk
Reverse Engineering
in Language
Test Development
Professor Fred Davidson
Division of English as an International Language
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Papers by UCLA and CSULA Students
An Evaluation of Unidimensional
IRT Model
Assumptions Using
Data from an English as a Second Language
Academic Reading Test
Viphavee Vongpumivitch
UCLA
Factorial Invariance of TOEFL
for Different Language Groups:
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Approach.
Hoky Min
UCLA
6:00 p.m.
Hosted Dinner [Free to all conference participants]