Hi to all, Enclosed please find invitation to ACROLT study Day. We hope to see you there, Best wishes, Orly Haim and the ACROLT Committee http://info.smkb.ac.il/home/home.exe/11571 Assessment as Learning Study Day Program Thursday, May 10, 2012 Tel Aviv University Kagan Hall (room 100), Trubowicz Law Faculty building 13:30-13:45 Registration* and refreshments 13:45-14:00 Greetings Elana Shohamy, Language Education, Tel Aviv University 14:00-15:00 Plenary Chair: Lisa Amdur Professor Jim Purpura Teachers College, Columbia University Assessing Meaning in Task-Based Language Assessments Session I: Classroom-Based Assessment Chair: Ofra Inbar 15:00-15:20 Dynamic assessment (DA) for classroom-based learning Erica Garb, Association for the Advancement of Education 15:20-15:40 Project Talisman for Success: An in-progress study Rachel Segev-Miller, Ronnie Darom, Hadas Dekel, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts 15:40-16:00 Assessment in the context of EFL classrooms Tsafi Timor, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts 16:00-16:10 Questions 16:10-16:30 Coffee break Session II: Testing in Hebrew and Arabic Chair: Orly Haim 16:30-16:50 Hebrew and Arabic Bagrut Exams: Inequalities and imbalances in testing policy Iair G. Or, Tel Aviv University 16:50-17:10 ä ú äëðéñ ú ááçéð ú åòøáé í áòáøé ì è÷ñèé ä ù á ÷øéà é ÷ö äáãìú ú ìàåðéáøñéèàå äôñéëåîèøé Tzur Karelitz, Anat Ben Simon, Ruth Fortus, Dua Safia, NITE Raphiq Ibrahim, Zohar Eviatar, Haifa University 17:10-17:20 Questions and discussion Session III: Diagnostic Testing Chair: Claire Gordon 17:20-17:40 é ä îáçð îáðäì ä áîú" ùô?ä ú ìîéã ï ì÷åéå ú ìàáçå îòøë Nurit Inbar-Weiss, Anat Ben-Simon, Meir Bergeron, NITE 17:40-18:00 Building learner profiles for EFL reading intervention through the use of the ABLE (Assessing Basic Literacy in English) Kit Lisa Amdur, RAMA, Susie Russak, Bait Burl Academic College 18:00-18:10 Questions and discussion 18:10-18:25 Coffee break Session IV: Quality Assurance Chair: Elana Spector-Cohen 18:25-18:45 ITC standards for assessing language minorities: Project description with a focus on quality control procedures Avid Allalouf, NITE, Alina A. Von Davier, ETS 18:45-19:05 A critical investigation into issues of social justice and democracy in the English State Matriculation Examination Rana Zaher, Emek Yizrael Max Stern Academic College, The Arab Academic College for Teachers' Training 19:05-19:15 Questions and discussion 19:15-19:30 Closing remarks Rosalie Sitman, Division of Foreign Languages, Tel Aviv University *Registration Fee: NIS 50.- Student rate: NIS 25.- [Including a book display] ************************************** ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** David Lloyd: ETNI founder & manager http://david.greenlloyd.com ***************************************