Plenaries 1 & 2 will be given by

Dr. Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

and

Dr. Dan Douglas, Iowa State University, “The DaVinci Code: 21st century perspectives on the LSP testing construct”

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-12:30

Plenary 1

Morning Sessions

“Beyond the rubric: Rater’s thought processes while rating speech samples”

Paula Winke, Michigan State University

“Micro-level impacts of foreign language examination in Turkey: A washback study”

Aliye Karabulut & Dan Douglas, Iowa State University

“Content validation process through alignment studies: Assessment-to-Standard and Standard-to-Standard alignment”

Youngshin Chi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Carsten Wilmes Ph.D., WIDA Consortium at WCER; & Jiin Yap, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“A methodology for designing standards-based guidelines for item writers”

Forest Platzek, Lidget Green Inc., Gary Buck Ph.D., University of Michigan; & Spiros Papageorgiou Ph.D.,University of Michigan 

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:15-1:50

Works in Progress

“The formative assessment potential of automated evaluation”

Elena Cotos, Iowa State University

“ESL writing assessment: Does the selection of rating scale matter?”

Chih-Kai (Cary) Lin, Georgetown University (Washington, DC)

Afternoon Sessions

2:00-3:45

“Measuring academic readiness with Dynamic Simulation Assessment”

Sha Balizet  Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning, Denver, CO.

“The effect of visuals on test-takers’ performance in L2 listening tests”

Ruslan Suvorov, Iowa State University

“Investigating raters' decision making process in ESL writing performance tests”

Xin Diana Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Mix methods studies in language testing: Review, illustration and suggestions”

Huei-Lien Hsu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Assessing foreign language aptitude: Current uses of the MLAT”

Ching-Ni Hsieh, Michigan State University and Second Language Testing, Inc,

“Measuring knowledge of lexical collocations: Comparing item types on web-based tests”

Erik Voss, Iowa State University

4:00-4:55

Plenary 2

5:00 Student presentation awards/Membership raffle/Closing comments

5:15-5:30 MwALT Business Meeting