Five tips to help you get your students ready for exam day by Cambridge English, 30/03/2021 In this post we’re sharing five top tips and resources that you can use to help your learners feel confident as exam day approaches.
Five exam preparation tips to help build student confidence by Cambridge English, 21/01/2021 How to motivate your students and ensure they feel fully prepared as they approach exam day.
Research Notes 78: What does plurilingualism mean for language assessment? by Cambridge English, 06/10/2020 Issue 78 of Cambridge English Research Notes discusses the role of plurilingualism in language assessment.
What is Validity? by Evelina Galaczi, 17/07/2020 The fundamental concept to keep in mind when creating any assessment is validity. Validity refers to whether a test measures what it aims to measure.
Revising A2 Key and B1 Preliminary Listening tests by Cambridge English, 11/02/2020 As part of our series of Research Notes relevant for teachers preparing learners for Cambridge exams, we look at recent revisions to Key and Preliminary Listening.
Revising A2 Key and B1 Preliminary Writing tests by Cambridge English, 26/11/2019 A look at recent revisions to Key and Preliminary Writing. Part of our series of Research Notes relevant for teachers preparing learners for Cambridge exams.
Consultation with teaching professionals to inform revisions to A2 Key and B1 Preliminary by Cambridge English, 13/11/2019 Debbie Howden and Angela Wright tell us about the market research 'health checks' employed to gather feedback on A2 Key, A2 Key for Schools, B1 Preliminary, and B1 Preliminary for Schools.
Updating the A2 Key and B1 Preliminary vocabulary lists by Cambridge English, 05/11/2019 Lanes, Love, Kalman, Brenchley and Pickles describe the process of updating the wordlist for A2 Key and B1 Preliminary exams and their schools variants.
Revisions to A2 Key and B1 Preliminary Speaking by Cambridge English, 30/10/2019 Kathryn Davies and Nick Glasson from our Assessment department report on how a periodic ‘health check’ prompted changes to A2 Key and B1 Preliminary.
Revisions to A2 Key and B1 Preliminary Reading by Cambridge English, 25/10/2019 Marianne Pickles, Tony Clark and Mark Elliott from our Assessment, Research and Thought Leadership, and Validation and Data Services departments, report on how one of our regular exam 'health checks' led to the revision of two of our exams.