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New article, really interesting for all feedback people: Shifting feedback agency to students by having them write their own feedback comments. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #agency #innerfeedback #openaccess

New paper in collaboration with my wonderful colleague Lovleen ‘Shifting feedback agency to students by having them write their own feedback comments’. @UofGAsBs doi.org/10.1080/026029…

#LanguageTesting Language Testing special issue on test-taker #accommodations—a crucial & timely topic for #equity #inclusion #fairness #socialjustice. Read Lynda Taylor & Jay Banerjee’s brilliant framing in introduction (link below) & post-script: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Slides from my presentation on "Generative AI for Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Opportunities and Issues" are available to access at slideshare.net/sharplem/gener…

The Call for Proposals for #LTRC2024 is open! More info: shorturl.at/gjkoV Submit by November 14th. #ILTAonline #CallforProposals #LTRC2024

Just a reminder that the next TAFSIG coffee club is happening this Thursday at 12pm. Info here (including some pre-session questions) baleaptafsig.weebly.com/upcoming-event… See you all there!

The next Language Testing Forum (LTF) will be hosted by CRELLA at our Bedford campus on 22-24 Nov 2024. Save the date!!!

Check out #LanguageTesting's new LinkedIn page Language Testing & please join our community on that platform. Open to all: linkedin.com/company/langua…

Reminder: Thurs March 21st 13:00-14:00 UK time: TAFSIG Coffee Club: Assessing receptive Skills. Have a question or something you'd like to discuss? There's still time to post here (responses are anonymous) forms.office.com/e/GF52NcLJG2

Applications for our Impactful Collaboration Award are open! The aim is to increase the visibility of impactful, collaborative practice. Deadline: Friday 31st May More details and application form: baleap.org/news/impactful… #tleap

Thanks everyone who came to the TAFSIG coffee club on assessing receptive skills today. A great turnout and some really interesting discussion. Thank you to our two presenters, Susie Cowley-Haselden and Peter Bannister for framing our discussions. #TAFSIG

Stay tuned for our next event on May 9 on standardization in EAP. This will be a Spotlight session and so a slightly different format to our regular coffee club one. Get the date in the diary. More details to follow

New paper with my brilliant psychology colleagues Maxine Swingler & Lorna Morrow examining differences in students’ self-feedback comments when compare their work against assess criteria versus exemplars. This is preprint but also submitted to journal. osf.io/preprints/edar…

Join us for the next BALEAP TAFSIG (Testing, Assessment and Feedback) event: Spotlight on Standardisation in EAP, 9th May at 13:00. See info below, use the QR code or register here forms.gle/eHxhiAfHoJCd91… BALEAP Dr Phil Smyth 🇬🇧🇭🇰

Just a reminder that this session is tomorrow (Thursday). Lots of registered interest already. Not too late to sign up for what promises to be a thought-provoking session on standardisation…

It is interesting to see the expectations of workforce related to the use of AI. I think the ability to work with AI will become an essential skill for most jobs. ets.org/research/chart…

!!!Save the Date!!! CRELLA will be hosting this year's Language Testing Forum (LTF), UKALTA's annual conference, on our Bedford campus 22-24 November 2024. Watch this space for more details!

📕SIG members Eddie Cowling & Rob Playfair research lang assessment literacy, & how the TAFSIG Piloting Network can support #eap practitioners. cambridgeenglish.org/english-resear… Then find out more about the (free!) network here: baleaptafsig.weebly.com/piloting-netwo… #tleap