EUROPEAN SURVEY OF LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT NEEDS

Report: Part two – regional findings

Ari Huhta (Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä)
Tuija Hirvelä (Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä)
Jayanti Banerjee (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University)

This website forms the second part (Part 2) of the report on the EALTA survey on language testing and assessment and the need for further training. This report presents more detailed results of the survey and thus complements the overall picture given in Part 1 of the report by Hasselgren, Carlsen and Helness (2004), which is accessible from the EALTA website. It is useful to compare and contrast the contents of Part 1 and 2 of the survey report so that the readers can more easily locate the information they are interested in:

• Part 1 covers all three versions of the survey questionnaire; Part 2 (i.e. this part) focuses on the first version (Questionnaire 1, or the language teachers’ questionnaire), which was filled in by the biggest number of respondents. Thus, information on the teacher trainers’ and language assessment professionals’ Questionnaires can only be found in Part 1. However, information about the bacground of all the respondents to the survey can be found in this Part 2.
• Part 1 gives an overall picture of results; Part 2 presents more detailed results in terms of the regions of Europe, sometimes also at the level of individual countries.
• Part 2 presents more details on
  • the individual language testing / assessment activities (current engagement / past training / need for training).
  • the background of the respondents and the relationships, if any, of the respondents' background with their perceived need for training.

Survey Report Part 2 can be accessed via the following links:

• Bacground of the respondents
  • Descriptive information
  • Background and the need for training
• Current engagement in language testing and assessment activities
  • Summary list of regional differences (PDF version here)
  • Charts & descriptions, activity by activity (PDF version here)
  • Details on the statistical analyses (as PDF)
• Previous training
  • Summary list of regional differences (PDF version here)
  • Charts & descriptions, activity by activity (PDF version here)
  • Details on the statistical analyses (as PDF)
• Need for further training
  • Overall need by region
    • Details on statistical analyses
  • Need for training in specific activities:
    • Summary list of regional differences (PDF version here)
    • Top 10 activities in terms of need for training (PDF version part 1 here and part 2 here)
  • Charts & descriptions, activity by activity (PDF version here)
    • Details on the statistical analyses (as PDF)
• Additional / related material
  • Comparison of the training needs of the respondents from Finland, the other Nordic countries and the other European countries (supplementary material to an article on the EALTA survey findings that appeared in a Finnish journal for language teachers)