Professional Certificate
In today's classroom, language teachers need a firm understanding of the roles that assessment and evaluation have on the learning outcomes of their students. To drive positive results, language teachers need to be able to design effective and reliable assessments.
The Professional Certificate in Language Assessment will give you the confidence to deliver high quality tests and the ability to evaluate the value of your existing assessments. Developed by the Language Testing Research Centre and drawing on the centre's 30 years of experience in the field, this is one of the few online courses that specialises in language assessment.
This practical course will enhance your language and ESL testing expertise with a specific set of practical skills in test development and evaluation. You'll grow an in-depth understanding of the theoretical and practical issues in this field, which will extend your capacity as a well-rounded language educator and help you deliver more robust results for students.
Offered 100% online, this accessible, affordable and flexibly-delivered course will give you access to internationally renowned researchers in language and testing and assessment. Learning from the best, you'll quickly gain the specialist knowledge you need, at a time and place that suits you.
If you're looking to gain specialist skills and knowledge to ensure the language testing and assessment you provide is high quality with reliable results, then this is the perfect course for you.
You will be introduced to general concepts of language assessment and examine the assessment of listening, reading, speaking and writing, in both theory and practice. You'll explore the general principles of test development, test purposes, writing of test specifications, test items and test tasks.
During this course, you'll discover the key types of language assessments which promote learning and have the opportunity to develop your own assessments and receive feedback on these from your tutors. You'll also explore the topic of validity in language assessment and learn skills in statistical analysis of test data.
The Language Testing Research Centre is an international leader in research and development in language assessment and language program evaluation, with international partnerships across the UK, Japan, China, Chile, Hong Long, Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, and the USA.
Graduates of this course will be aligned with the centre's highly-regarded reputation, attracting opportunities to specialise in the growing field of language assessment. With practical advice from leading experts, you'll increase your confidence in your current role and gain the skills to deliver high-quality assessments.
On successful completion of the Professional Certificate in Language Assessment, you'll have a broad understanding of how language assessment is used in different contexts and be able to promote best-practice in your current and future workplaces.
It takes about 20 minutes to complete the form using the online application system.
You can save your work in progress and complete the application at a later date.
Admissions for this course are not capped per intake, so you do not need to apply for multiple intakes. If you are unsure which intake you wish to apply for, please note that you can change your application later by contacting the student support team.