Custom test development
Diagnostic English Language Assessment (DELA) for Monash University
The Language Testing Research Centre (LTRC) has worked with the Faculty of Pharmacy at Monash University to design a custom diagnostic writing assessment system for first year undergraduate pharmacy students. Students were assessed using a new diagnostic writing rubric.
Foreign Language Placement Tests
We oversee the administration and continued maintenance of the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne placement test battery for 10 languages:
Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish.
These have been operational since the beginning of 2014. The LTRC team continues to work closely with language staff to continually improve and fine-tune the test and associated procedures. We make these tests available to other institutions under site license agreements.
Test development for Japanese school language assessment
LTRC has worked with a company in Japan that delivers language assessments to school children at different levels of proficiency. The LTRC supports development new test versions.
Australian Education Assessment Services (AEAS) English proficiency tests
In 2012, the LTRC worked on new versions for the Years 10-12 tests as well as developing prototype materials for the Years 4-6 test. A minor thesis on an aspect of the AEAS was also completed in 2012 under the supervision of Dr Susy Macqueen.
Health Sciences communication skills test battery
These tests assess the oral communication skills of students beginning undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the health sciences at the University of Melbourne