top of page

BAAL TEASIG online conference    17th September 2021

Test fairness in a digital age - BAAL TEASIG.png
The 2021 conference theme was ‘Test fairness in a digital age.’
The conference covered themes related to test taker perceptions of fairness, fairness and online test delivery, fairness and machine learning in the context of language tests, fairness between different test taker constituencies and fairness in the autoscoring of language assessments. 
Conference programme
Keynote speaker
Dr Daniel Isbell.jpg

Dr Daniel Isbell (University of Hawai'i, USA)

Assistant Professor, Department of Second Languages

There’s no going back now:
Fairness and justice in the new language testing landscape

YouTube.png
Video available
PPT.jpg
Slides available
Presentations
Sonja Zimmermann - BAAL TEASIG 2021 - Thumbnail.png

1. Sonja Zimmermann (TestDaF-Institut, Germany)

Test-takers’ perception of the digital Test Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Test of German as a Foreign Language)

YouTube.png
Video available
David Booth - Thumbnail.png

2. David Booth (Pearson, UK)

How to make secure online delivery work

YouTube.png
Video available
Azrifah & Vahid - Thumbnail.png

3. Azrifah Zakaria, Dr Vahid Aryadoust (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Machine learning for language assessment: assumptions and fairness

Fabiana MacMillan, Ahyoung Kim, Jason Kemp - Thumbnail.png
Fabiana MacMillan, Ahyoung Kim, Jason Kemp - Thumbnail.png
Fabiana MacMillan, Ahyoung Kim, Jason Kemp - Thumbnail.png

4. Dr Fabiana MacMillan, Dr Ahyoung Kim, Dr Jason Kemp (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Questions of fairness in remote testing of K-12 English learners: developments, challenges, and recommendations

YouTube.png
Video available
PPT.jpg
Slides available
Barry O'Sullivan, Trevor Breakspear, William Bayliss - thumbail.png

5. Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, Trevor Breakspear, William Bayliss (British Council, UK & China)

Validating a language test's auto-scoring model 

YouTube.png
Video available
PPT.jpg
Slides available
bottom of page