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quality assurance in testing and assessment;
innovation and good practice in assessment and evaluation;
evaluation of learning.
All the projects have one central aim – empowering language professionals in these
issues.
A further major aim of the projects in the third medium-term programme is to foster a
culture of assessment and evaluation that is appropriate for the new and demanding
challenges that are to be considered in the language learning of and for the future.
Work in the strand of evaluation
This strand will be very prominent in the third medium-term programme, involving
several projects. In drawing up the new programme attention was given to including
project work for all different levels of education, so as to create prototypes enabling
language professionals to adapt guidelines, materials and training kits to their specific
needs.
The following issues will be dealt with in the projects:
1. linking exams to the CEFR (secondary level);
2. student teacher portfolio (teacher education);
3. culture of evaluation (all levels);
4. establishment of reading and writing levels linked to the CEFR (primary level);
5. guidelines for university testing in the area of Languages for Specific Purposes
(tertiary level);
6. quality assurance in language learning and teaching (all levels).
In addition to the project work in the four strands of the programme there will be
special focus areas dealing with other important issues in these areas. In the area of
evaluation, support materials to link teaching components to the CEFR will be
disseminated to teachers.
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