In this section, you will find a number of articles, which have been written to help you develop your skills and knowledge as a teacher in the professional practice 'Assessing learning'. From primary-aged students to adult learners of English, the articles you will find here are practical, insightful and full of ideas to support your teaching and planning for all kinds of classrooms.

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Assessment for Learning
Although Assessment for learning, or AfL, is nothing new to mainstream education in the UK, in the world of ELT it...
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Error Correction
One of the main dilemmas for teachers giving conversation groups is error correction. It’s always tricky to know when...
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Evaluating speaking - Part 2 - speaking article
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Evaluating speaking - Part 2
This article is in three parts. The first part has already looked at what a speaker needs to be able to do to use...
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Evaluating speaking - the IELTS speaking test - speaking article
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Evaluating speaking - the IELTS speaking test
This is the third in a series of articles looking at evaluating speaking, focusing on the IELTS speaking test. 
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Ongoing assessment - fun not fear!
In my experience of teaching juniors (6-11) and seniors (11-16) I have found that there is a notable difference in...
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Peer and self-assessment
Learners are much better at giving each other accurate and sensitive feedback than we suspect, and this activity gives...
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Student progress
Assistants are not usually expected to carry out formal assessment of their learners with tests or marking. However,...
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Teenagers and exams
Progress tests, end-of-term exams, end-of-year exams and official exams to name a few. Most educational systems around...
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Test question types - methodology article
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Test question types
In my previous article Test writing I looked at some of the difficulties of writing good tests and how to make tests...
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Test writing - methodology article
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Test writing
If you think taking tests is difficult then you should try writing them! Writing a good test is indeed quite a...
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Testing - why bother?
This article will ask why we test learners of English. 
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Testing and assessment - methodology article
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Testing and assessment
I will always remember the horror of receiving my chemistry result when I was thirteen years old. I knew it wasn't...
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Young learner testing - methodology article
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Young learner testing
Tests for people of any age can seem a threat or, at the very least, an obstacle that needs to be overcome. Testing...
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