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Cultural fairness in a placement test
A placement test score should be a fair representation of a candidate’s ability, not their cultural knowledge. Here are four steps test designers can take to ensure that.
Social media education: ‘Incredibly social’
Social media teaching is growing in popularity. Why does it work and where do you start?
British Council Greece: Teaching teachers
This series uncovers ideas and activities from British Council IELTS teaching centres around the world. Read on for three ideas from British Council Greece.
Recruitment testing: Three things to consider
Whether you are recruiting 60 or 600 candidates, answer these three questions to choose the right placement test for your company’s needs.
‘Your test isn’t accurate!’ — A test designer responds
Your student took a placement test. The result was B2. You believe he is B1. What went wrong?
Getting test takers started with the Dynamic Placement Test
Subramoni Iyer describes how his experience with students and teachers in Syria led to localised test instructions and a pre-test video.
Cultural fairness in a placement test?
In this video, Andrew Stokes discusses how we can ensure that a placement test — or any other kind of language test — is culturally fair.
“I didn’t have time to finish the test — and I’m an English teacher!”
Surely the more questions you answer in a placement test, the more points you get and the higher your score? If you can’t finish, you can’t do yourself justice. And that must invalidate the result.
Should we test all four skills in a placement test?
In the second of a series of short videos, testing expert Laura Edwards looks at the the roles of output and input in language testing.
Integrating Clarity programs: What SCORM can do for you
The beauty of SCORM is that most of the work is done for you. So, the list below is a compilation of questions you may consider when integrating ClarityEnglish programs into your course through SCORM.
SCORM and Learning Management Systems: the basics
It is extremely frustrating when you have excellent tools or programs but a) no one knows they are available, and b) if they do, they don’t know where to find them. One solution is to deliver digital resources to your students on a Learning Management System (LMS) through SCORM.
Teaching with technology: lessons learned from total immersion
As we face changes, disruptions, and uncertainty in every part of our lives, one thing that has emerged from the last three months with absolute clarity is the importance of teaching online. For many teachers, the shift has been a challenging one. Practically overnight, they were asked to switch from classroom teaching to purely online classes — and often without any training or assistance.
Using ClarityEnglish programs off-site
Every Clarity subscription can allow students to run the ClarityEnglish programs from home, the bus-stop, the library and the classroom. What are the elements required for this to be as smooth as silk (as Tense Buster, Intermediate, Equality would teach us)?
Introducing Admin Panel, the rebirth of Clarity’s Results Manager
In anticipation of the big Admin Panel release in August, we ask Clarity’s Technical Team about why teachers and administrators should look forward to the new version of this seemingly mundane administrative tool.
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