Assessment

Presenting at the TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo is an exciting professional development opportunity. It is also a chance to express yourself and embrace your passion for English teaching with 6,000 people from around the world. It seems appropriate that the first step to participating in the TESOL...

English language educators create and adapt tests continuously throughout their careers, but often assessment can be an afterthought in course design. Bachman and Palmer write that assessment developers must be held accountable for the tests they create, because those tests affect stakeholders in significant ways (2010). For example, tests can...