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2:00 – 4:00
Keynote Speech
Issues in assessing writing
across the curriculum
Dr. Liz Hamp-Lyons
4:00 – 5:00 Reception
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration
Coffee
8:50 – 9:00 a.m. Welcome
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Invited paper
Portfolios for specific purposes:
issues and directions
Dr. Liz Hamp-Lyons
10:00-10:30 a.m. Paper
Lana Phillips
CSULA
Cloze as a method to diagnose ESL
student performance
10:30-11:00 a.m. Paper
Sang Keun Shin
UCLA
Did they take the same test:
Examinee proficiency and the structure of language tests
11:00-11:15 a.m. Break
11:15-11:45 a.m. Paper
Bernadette Stoneman
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
In search of missing pieces
to the washback jigsaw puzzle
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Paper
Viphavee Vongpumivitch
UCLA
Measuring the knowledge of
text structure using three reading tasks: a pilot study
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15-1:45 p.m. Paper
Keumhee Lee
CSULA
Looking for comparable construct
validity in a placement test
1:45 - 2:15 p.m. Paper
Yasuyo Sawaki
UCLA
A multivariate generalizability
analysis of the dependability of ratings in a Spanish speaking test
2:15 - 2:45 p.m. Paper
Eunice Jang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Folk Fairness in Language Testing
2:45 - 2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Paper/Demonstration
Priyanvada Abeywickrama, Nathan Carr, Brent
Green,
Greg Kamei, Mikyung Kim, Soojeong Kim, Michael Pan,
Christine Salvador, Yasuyo Sawaki, Sang Keun Shin, Sung-Ock Sohn,
Viphavee Vongpumivitch, Xiaoming Xi
UCLA
The UCLA Web-based Language
Assessment System (WebLAS)
3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Lyle Bachman, Liz Hamp-Lyons, Alan Davies, Antony John Kunnan