Assessment SIG

Contact us: assessmentsig@braztesol.org.br

SIG Mission: 

Our mission statement:

To promote awareness of assessment in the ELT community by providing teachers and educators with the best practices within the assessment realm.

 

Our main goals:

  1. To provide the ELT community with assessment literacy;
  2. To offer online and face-to-face events raising awareness on the importance of assessment within the ELT community.
  3. To support members with key tools in the assessment area so they can self-evaluate and evaluate their own students and peers.
  4. To offer the community reliable and useful information based on research conducted by the most important exam boards.

 

SIG Team

Isadora Moraes

Isadora Moraes is a professor in the Languages Faculty at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais), where she teaches courses in the area of Applied Linguistics and supervises pre-service English teachers. Her main research interests are language assessment literacy and teacher education.

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Isadora Moraes Leader

Douglas Consolo

Douglas Altamiro Consolo holds a BA in Linguistics and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Brazil, a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, in England, and a title of Associate Professor from the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP). He has carried out post-doctoral projects at UNICAMP, at the University of Melbourne, in Australia (UNIMELB), and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He works as a lecturer and researcher at UNESP.

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Douglas Consolo Coordinator

Joyce Fettermann

Joyce Fettermann holds a BA in Languages (Portuguese and English), and earned her master's degree and PhD in Cognition and Language from the University of Northern Rio de Janeiro (UENF), Brazil. She is currently a visiting faculty from the Leitorado Guimarães Rosa Program at the University of Pittsburgh, in the US, where she has taught Elementary Portuguese and Cultures of the Portuguese-speaking World. She is also an e-moderator for the British Council in courses and international events for teachers. Her main research interests are digital technology in language teaching, multiliteracies and formative assessment in language teaching.

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Joyce Fettermann Coordinator

Rafael Carpanez

Rafael Carpanez has been in the ELT field for over 20 years. He is a CELTA and Oxford Teacher´s Academy holder and has worked for institutions such as Berlitz, National Geographic Learning, Cultura Inglesa SP, Oxford University Press and the British Council. He is currently the Business Development and Marketing Manager for Michigan Language Assessment.

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Rafael Carpanez Coordinator