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Course Sections

1. The editor’s role during test production
2. Preparation for editing
3. The editing process:
   1. Key considerations in evaluating topics
   2. Editing reading texts and listening scripts
   3. Editing tasks and answer keys
4. Giving effective feedback to item writers
5. Putting it into practice – edit and write feedback on sample tasks before comparing notes written by an experienced editor

Course content

Unit 1

Introduction to assessment editing

• Overview
• The editor’s role
• The editor’s place in the test production process
• Similar roles in the test production process
• What makes a good editor

Unit 2

Preparation for editing

Documentation that an editor will need to familiarize themselves with:

• Briefing documents
• Guidelines
• Word and structure lists
• Trackers
• Templates

Unit 3

The editing process itself (sub-divided into 3 lessons as below):

Unit 3.1 Editing topics

• Checking for inappropriate topics
• Sensitive topics
• Inappropriate topics for test takers
• Dating of topics
• Topic treatment

Unit 3.2 Editing texts and audioscripts

• Checking text or audioscript
• Editing an audioscript
• Checking language level
• Tools for checking language level

Unit 3.3 Editing items, tasks and keys

• Editing test items
• Task-level issues
• Productive item keys
• Non-productive item keys and distractors

Unit 4

Feedback for writers

• Fundamental principles
• Improving feedback
• Writing feedback

Unit 5

Putting it into practice

• A series of tasks to edit and write feedback on
• Suggestions for further development