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September 2010: Language Testing Update. This month on the language testing resources website I have given the articles page a general overhaul and brought it up to date with lots of new material that is appearing free of charge on the internet.

There are many other updates, but do check out the new video (clip 6) on the revamped humour page. It's taken from an early Rowan Atkinson sketch. I hadn't seen this since I was at school, and came across it again last month. It will certainly appeal to all the English language teachers who use this site. Enjoy!

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The pages on this website now load much more quickly. This is mainly because of a technical change that you wouldn't easily detect: all updating is now done offline, and the page is reassmbled on-the-fly when nothing else is happening in the background. This means that your browser is never waiting for information from my server. While this may not sound very exciting, and there isn't anything to see, it reduces the frustration of waiting times quite significantly!

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Open Book - Open Web Tests
Click on the 'Features' link to see selected topics that have previously appeared in the features slot. These are changed up to four times a year, providing short pieces on subjects of interest to students of language testing and assessment.

Upcoming Conferences: This month the JLTA conference is on 11th September, and the Midwest Association of Language Testers on 25th September. The East Coast Organization of Language Testers conference is on 29th - 30th October. Courses: ALTE is running two introductory courses in testing and assessment in Spain on 20th September. Additional information here. Awards: ETS is offering TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment, for which applications must be submitted by 15th October. Coming Soon: The third issue of Language Testing Bytes is now in production and will be available in October. This features an interview with Jim Purpura of Teachers College on the testing and assessment of grammar.

The Language Testing Bookstore is an Amazon affiliate. We try to keep the store up to date with all books on language testing currently in print. These are arranged under a number of categories from general texts, to specialist areas of testing and assessment. You can also find texts on educational measurement and statistics that are commonly used in language testing programmes. All books ordered through the bookstore are delivered by Amazon.

Information Alert Services
The Language Testing Resources website has a number of free Information Alert Services that are designed to help you keep up to date with what is going on in the world of language testing. These services use webslicing, which is a recent web feature introduced with Internet Explorer 8. Information on how webslicing works is available on the site's technical page. When you subscribe to a webslice a tab is placed on the favourites bar of Internet Explorer and you are alerted whenever the information is updated. You can currently subscribe to any of the following services:

Language Testing News: Available on this page. When you subscribe your browser will check for new language testing stories on this website every few hours. Go straight to the top story, or come back to this page to see all new stories in the world's media. Frequency: Daily.

Jobs4U: A daily roundup of jobs in testing and assessment. You see just the most recent job available in the alert, but just click to go to the employment page where you will find all the new positions just advertised. Frequency: Daily.

Article Alert: Checks the language testing journals and many applied linguistics and educational research journals for articles on language testing. When you receive an alert, go to the page to see all the new articles that have just been published. Frequency: Weekly.

Language Testing Bytes: Notification of new issues of the podcast so you can download them from this website. Frequency: 3 - 4 times annually.

Language Testing on Youtube: Keep up with the videos published by testing, assessment and media companies. Frequency: Variable.

Also available is this website's bulletin with periodic information about updates and other language testing news. Frequency: variable.

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Humour
Testing and assessment is serious because it can affect the lives of test takers, institutions, and society. But like all human and social activities, there is a humorous side as well. So after all the heavy stuff in the rest of this website, you may enjoy looking at testing in a rather different way, in the humour page, where you'll find video, audio, cartoons and other fun stuff related to testing and assessment.

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California to use new type of nationwide school tests
3 Sep, 2010
Through a federal grant, California will join 43 other states in replacing oft-maligned standardized exams.

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Florida gets millions to devise new student assessment tests
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CSL offers certifications - The Rice Thresher
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CSL offers certifications
The Rice Thresher
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