Course summary

Our programme aims to meet the needs of professionals who have responsibilities for language testing and evaluation at institutional, regional or national level. The programme gives you the opportunity to develop a solid grounding in language test design, construction and evaluation, and in research design. Through the programme, we aim to support you in creating testing and evaluation policies within your own context that conform to international standards of validity and reliability. The programme is also available as a Postgraduate Certificate - see details below. With orientation to launch the course, five online modules, and a dissertation, our programme is designed for part-time study over two years. We also offer opportunities to base your coursework and dissertation project on issues within your own educational or professional context. Programme content considers the major developments in language testing in recent years and reflects current thinking and good practice. The programme starts with compulsory orientation in late September and runs over two academic years, ending with submission of dissertations in September two years later. Each taught module lasts one academic term. The five modules are usually taken in this sequence:

• Language Test Construction and Evaluation

• Exploring Language Constructs for Language Testing

• Issues in Language Testing

• Research Methods for Language Testing

• Statistical Analysis for Language Testing

• Wednesday 15 March 2023, 1:00pm - 2:00pm GMT: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/events/masters-level-studies-in-language-testing-2023-03-17-13-00

• Thursday 22 June 2023, 1:00pm - 2:00pm BST: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/events/masters-level-studies-in-language-testing-2023-03-17-13-00-2

• Language Test Construction and Evaluation

• Exploring Language Constructs for Language Testing

• Issues in Language Testing