This Handbook is for teachers, testers, and policymakers working to align language education with the CEFR, offering practical guidance and insights for real-world application.
Assessing multimodal viewing-to-write constructs: task design, performance, processing, and rating
This study explores how to design and assess multimodal viewing-to-write tasks, reflecting real-world communication that integrates visual, spoken, and written skills.
The role of pragmatic variables and item characteristics of pragmatic speaking tests
This research explores how pragmatic speaking test items, test items that reflect how people use English in real-life contexts, could be incorporated into the Aptis test.
Evaluating text suitability for English for Academic Purposes reading assessment: Teachers versus Lexile, Coh-Metrix and ChatGPT
This report explores how expert EAP teachers and tools like Lexile, Coh-Metrix, and ChatGPT judge reading texts—and where their evaluations match or differ.
Creating a school-child-family evaluation rubric for evaluating children's plurilingual and intercultural competence in a Catalan primary school
Through an Assessment Research Grant, this study tested a rubric to assess plurilingual and intercultural competence at a Catalan primary school.
Towards building an automated scoring model for assessing appropriate use of metadiscourse markers in Aptis Writing across CEFR levels: A multidisciplinary study
Learn about our grant publication that explores the use of Metadiscourse Markers in L2 writing.