Etherton Education, based in Somerset in the UK, provides academic summer courses to students looking to study in a British boarding school or university. They explain why and how they have been using the Dynamic Placement Test for the last two years.
Category: Clarity updates
A first for Clarity: Dynamic Placement Test Standard Setting and Benchmarking
Earlier this month, we held a standard setting event for the Dynamic Placement Test and initiated many engaging discussions with ELT and assessment experts from all over the globe. Let’s talk about how it went and what our future plans are for the test.
Using Road to IELTS in the classroom
We look at three ideas for using Road to IELTS in class to help students with the Speaking test.
Do you know you’re being tested?
Andrew Stokes asks whether students should be tested via their mobiles — and whether they should even know they are being assessed.
Putting a test “to the test” — how to make it valid and reliable
Andrew Stokes looks at what goes on behind the scenes to ensure that a test is both fair and accurate.
Practical Writing now on mobile
Students do most of their day-to-day writing on mobile, so it’s only logical they should use their devices to learn to write.
Behind the scenes on the Clarity servers
How do Clarity’s programs get to your student’s phones, and what does a database in the Cloud look like? What makes the system reliable and why is Clarity upgrading?
Timing in Clarity programs
Following a number of queries about Clarity’s approach to timing and time-out, Product Manager Sky Chan explains the situation.
“I’m a busy teacher and we don’t run IELTS classes…”
You have students who need to take IELTS, but your institution doesn’t run IELTS classes. As a busy teacher you don’t have much spare time to support these learners. What to do?
5 things to expect from Clarity in 2019
Now that we have converted Study Skills Success, Tense Buster, Dynamic Placement Test and Road to IELTS, the big push this year is to upgrade the remaining programs to HTML5 format. Here are the five principle development targets you can look forward to.