SCALAR 6

California State University, Los Angeles
May 16 & 17, 2003



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Friday, May 16


CSULA: Student Union Alhambra A Room

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
 

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Saturday, May 17


CSULA: Student Union Montebello Room

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]
 
 

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