ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid innovation among language assessment developers who had to adapt their testing processes to address various restrictions from governments and institutions. This overview introduces some of the challenges and opportunities test developers grappled with during this period as well as introduces the six commentaries provided in the special issue. These commentaries were written by testing teams in various higher education contexts who were tasked with modifying their assessments in the rapidly evolving situation associated with the pandemic. The assessment contexts described in this special issue range from relatively small-scale local placement to international large-scale.

摘要

COVID-19大流行导致语言评估开发人员迅速创新，他们不得不调整其测试流程以解决政府和机构的各种限制。本概述介绍了测试开发人员在此期间应对的一些挑战和机遇，并介绍了本期特刊中提供的六条评论。这些评论是由在各种高等教育背景下的测试团队撰写的，这些团队的任务是在与大流行相关的快速发展的情况下修改评估。在本期特刊中描述的评估环境从相对较小的本地规模到国际规模。