Events

The 2023 MATSDA conference (details below) was a great success - many thanks to all who participated. Details of the 2024 conference to be announced soon.

The MATSDA/Bilingual International School Conference

Materials for Testing

Wednesday June 21st - Thursday June 22nd, 2023
Villa di Poggio Reale in Rufina near Florence

Plenary Speakers

Dave Allan      Neus Figueras Casanovas      Alan Maley      Hitomi Masuhara
Barry O’Sullivan      Brian Tomlinson      Carolyn Westbrook

Conference Focus:

The Conference will focus on the development, adaptation and use of materials for testing. The materials could be designed to facilitate learner preparation for tests, learner participation in tests, the evaluation of learner performance and/or feedback on learner performance and the provision of learner follow up. For the sake of the Conference a test will be considered to be any activity which aims to discover useful information about learner performance in a target language. The test could be informal or formal, formative or summative, low stakes or high stakes, in a classroom or in an examination hall, with a pen and paper or with a computer.

Parallel Presentations

There will be over sixty parallel presentations lasting thirty minutes each. To submit an abstract for a presentation please send a 100-150 word summary of the proposed presentation to Brian Tomlinson at brianjohntomlinson@gmail.com.

Poster Presentations

To submit an abstract for a poster presentation please send a 100-150 word summary of the proposed poster presentation to Brian Tomlinson at brianjohntomlinson@gmail.com.

Conference fees

TWO DAYS

  • Participation fee: €175 (including lunches, coffees and teas)
  • MATSDA members, members of MAWSIG, members of LEND and members of TESOL Italy: €140
  • Students: €140

ONE DAY

  • Participation fee: €95 (including lunches, coffees and teas)
  • MATSDA members, members of MAWSIG, members of LEND and members of TESOL Italy: €80
  • Students: €80

To enrol for the Conference and to enquire about methods of payment please contact Kristin Lanese at formazione@centrostudimugello.it.

Start/finish times to be announced nearer the event.

MATSDA Membership

To join MATSDA contact Siv Sears at siv.sears@gmail.com or JOIN ONLINE.

Hotels

For information about hotels and any information about the venue please contact Kristin Lanese at formazione@centrostudimugello.it.

The Venue

Here is a link to the venue for the Conference: comune.rufina.fi.it/villa-di-poggio-reale

Please distribute this information to anybody you think might be interested in joining the Conference.

See you in Tuscany in June!