Walidacja testów wypowiedzi ustnej oraz uznawanie wyników w ramach NULTE
[ 1 ] Centrum Języków i Komunikacji Politechniki Poznańskiej, Prorektor ds. współpracy międzynarodowej, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee
EN Speaking Test Validation and Mutual Recognition within NULTE Framework
2022
chapter in monograph
english
- speaking
- skills
- language assessment
- internationalisation
- foreign language certification
- EAP
- language testing
- recognition
PL The Network of University Language Testers in Europe (NULTE) was established under the umbrella of the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS) in 2018. ACERT and CertAcles examinations are two of the signatory language certification systems of NULTE’s Memorandum of Cooperation, and as such, they continued to co-operate in research conducive to the validity and transparency of the examinations and mutual recognition of their certificates. Following the validation study of the commonly developed ACERT - CertAcles examination which aimed to measure language proficiency in reading, writing and listening (Zabala and Sawicka: 2019), the authors now wish to investigate the comparability of the speaking parts of their examinations. The article presents the efforts undertaken by the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), developers and administrators of CertAcles examinations, and Poznan University of Technology (PUT), developers and administrators of ACERT examinations, to further the collaboration established in 2017. The objective of the joint research is to examine the validity and reliability of ACERT and CertAcles speaking exams and their comparability based on the analyses of examination specifications, rating criteria, candidates’ scores and raters’ feedback from two examination sessions in PUT and UPV in 2019. The sessions were carried out in PUT with ACERT tasks and candidates and in UPV with CertAcles tasks and candidates. Raters of both universities attended both sessions. Our results will hopefully lay the foundations for co-operation and improvement of assessment practices within the NULTE network.
2022
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