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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Gysen, Sara; Kuijper, Henk; Van Avermaet, Piet – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
In this article we focus on two specific cases illustrating how similar issues have been addressed differently. Flanders, a federal state of Belgium, and the Netherlands share Dutch as an official language, yet remarkable differences in assessment traditions and policy development exist between them. These differences are most obvious with regard…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Official Languages, Testing, Language Tests
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Bechger, Timo M.; Kuijper, Henk; Maris, Gunter – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
This article reports on two related studies carried out to link the State examination of Dutch as a second language to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR). In the first study, key persons from institutions for higher education were asked to determine the minimally required language level of beginning students. In the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Standard Setting (Scoring), Indo European Languages, Guidelines
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Alderson, J. Charles; Figueras, Neus; Kuijper, Henk; Nold, Guenter; Takala, Sauli; Tardieu, Claire – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is intended as a reference document for language education including assessment. This article describes a project that investigated whether the CEFR can help test developers construct reading and listening tests based on CEFR levels. If the CEFR scales together with the detailed description of…
Descriptors: Test Content, Listening Comprehension Tests, Classification, Test Construction