It’s been a good few weeks since our 23rd annual conference (on EAL assessment) took place at King’s College London. The organisers were delighted with how smoothly it ran and by the kind words some participants shared with us on the day. We’ve now had a chance to go through and digest the evaluations and I thought I’d share some of them with you to show that we do value your ‘formative’ assessment for our own learning!..

Contents

Editorial (page 2)
Frank Monaghan

The use and abuse of international assessment studies: Lessons learned from PISA and PIRLS (page 3)
Therese Hopfenbeck

Assessing EAL Learning and Teaching (page 10)
Manny Vazquez

Assessing EAL: Purposes, methods and data collection (page 18)
Constant Leung, Neil Jones, Michael Evans, Yongcan Liu

Assessment for Learning in the Early Years (page 27)
Therese O’Sullivan