IELTS examiner certification - Speaking

 

Stringent quality assurance mechanisms are in place to ensure examiners are well-qualified, effectively trained, monitored and certificated. Research includes aspects relating to:

 

  • • assessment procedures
  • • rating processes
  • • examiner gender, attitudes and behaviour
  • • examiner training
  • • handwritten versus word-processed essays.

 

 

The reports below cover speaking:

 

 

Title Researcher Published
Cognitive processes involved in performing the IELTS Speaking Test: Respondents’ reported strategic behaviours in testing and non-testing contexts  Li-Shih Huang, The University of Victoria, Canada IELTS RR Online Series 2013/1
Examiner use and views of the revised IELTS pronunciation descriptors Lynda Yates and Elizabeth Pryor, La Trobe University IELTS RR 12 2011
The contribution of inter-language phonology accommodation to interexaminer variation in the rating of pronunciation in oral proficiency interviews Michael Carey, University of the Sunshine Coast and Robert Mannell, Macquarie University IELTS RR 9 2009
A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of examiner behaviour in the revised IELTS Speaking Test Annie Brown, The University of Melbourne SiLT 19 2007
A worldwide survey of examiners' views and experience of the revised IELTS Speaking Test Annie Brown, UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Lynda Taylor, Cambridge ESOL RN 26 2006
The impact on candidate language of examiner deviation from a set interlocutor frame in the IELTS Speaking Test Barry O’Sullivan, Roehampton University and Yang Lu, University of Reading IELTS RR 6 2006
An examination of the rating process in the revised IELTS Speaking Test Annie Brown, UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research IELTS RR 6 2006
Revising the IELTS Speaking Test: Retraining IELTS examiners worldwide Lynda Taylor, Research and Validation Group, Cambridge ESOL RN 6 2001
An investigation of raters’ orientation in awarding scores in the IELTS oral interview Annie Brown, The University of Melbourne

IELTS RR 3 2000

SiLT 19 2007
Monitoring IELTS examiner training effectiveness Clare McDowell, Australian Research and Testing Services IELTS RR 3 2000
An investigation of Speaking Test reliability with particular reference to examiner attitude to the Speaking Test format and candidate/examiner discourse produced Brent Merrylees, LTC Language and Testing Consultants Pty Ltd and Clare McDowell, Australian Research and Testing Services

IELTS RR2 1999

SiLT 19
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