This paper outlines the reform of the national school-leaving exam in Austria from a teacher-
designed exam to a professionally developed and standardized exam for the foreign …

Considering the need for improving English proficiency among Cuban university graduates,
the Ministry of Higher Education (MES) implemented a new policy for teaching, learning and …

Many language course providers face the challenge to align internal, often intuitive
assessments to internationally recognised proficiency frameworks for accountability …

This article provides a single, common-case study of a test retrofit project at one Colombian
university. It reports on how the test retrofit project was carried out and describes the different …

This study investigated to what extent two teams of experienced raters from different
European countries (Finland and Austria), using their own CEFR-based rating scale (one …

Numerous references to 'new'literacies have been added to the discourse of various
academic and public domains, resulting in a multiplication of literacies. Among them is the …

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manuscript evaluation plays an important role both in publishing and professional …

Linking national language syllabi to proficiency frameworks like the Common European
Framework of Reference impacts on school-leaving examinations. This study tracks how the …

This dissertation focuses on the B1 level reading comprehension task of the high-school-
leaving exam undertaken by Italian as a Foreign Language (FL) learners enrolled in …

Examinations of language proficiency routinely include the assessment of speaking, which
still largely necessitates the use of human raters. However, variability in rating quality is a …