#cala2025
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Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025

#comics #deepdarkfears
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
✨ Welcome to the 2025–2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates (CALAs)! Now in its 25th year, CALA gives SILS graduate students the chance to enhance their education with experience working in an academic library. The program is a collaboration between UNC Libraries & SILS. go.unc.edu/CALA2025-2026
Introducing the 2025-2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates - School of Information and Library Science
The School of Information and Library Science graduate students will get real-world experience by working hands-on with the Libraries.
go.unc.edu
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Anddddd that’s a wrap!!!

What a wonderful end to the #CALA2025 Fall Conference💙

Thank you to all the amazing students and professionals who contributed their time and expertise to this conference, and to CALA’s leadership team for all their guidance and leadership in organizing this event.
October 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
✨Congratulations to our Student Award winners!!! 🏆

1️⃣ Matthieu Meignan
2️⃣ Meng-Su Lee
3️⃣ Christina Hammam

Thank you all for your contributions to our #CALA2025 conference, offering us insightful and meaningful perspectives into language assessment and how we can improve the field!
October 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
At #CALA2025, Eunice Jang presents “Leveraging AI for the Assessment of Critical Reasoning in Graduate Writing: Connecting Theory, Ethics, and Practice in Canadian Higher Education.”

#CALA #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #DuolingoEnglishTest #LanguageAssessment #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch
October 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
At #CALA2025, Heike Neuman dives into the transformative power of Generative AI in education.
GenAI: Leveraging Disruption for Positive Change — turning disruption into meaningful progress.🔎✨
October 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
✨Bilingual (En/Fr) Presentation by Jennifer MacDonald!

Adapting the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS) for University English Language Teaching: A Case Study from the Chinese Context

#CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax
October 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Engaging discussions and new perspectives emerging at #CALA2025!

📘CLB/NCLC in Practice: Gathering Feedback to Guide Future Use
October 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
✨What an amazing Panel Discussion!! #CALA2025

📙📕State of Language Assessment in Canada: Past, Presert and Future

💬 Heike Neumann, Shahrzad Saif, Eunice Jang, and Beverly Baker
October 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
✨🧠📘 #CALA2025

🔹 Christina Hammam – Understanding referral barriers: A scoping review of psychoeducational assessment pathways for EAL students

🔹 Yara Yazbek – A qualitative examination of school psychologists’ knowledge of and experiences with supporting newcomer students in Nova Scotia schools
October 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🧠✨ Exploring the intersection of Educational Psychology and language learning at #CALA2025!
Emma Becker presented “Aligning Social-Emotional Learning theory, evidence, and assessment for EAL learners: A scoping review of Canadian evidence.” 🇨🇦

#MSVU #EAL #Social-EmotionalLearning #LanguageAssessment
October 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
✨ Meng-Su Lee presented “An Investigation into Feedback Uptake in Computerized Dynamic Assessment”

#CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #DynamicAssessment #ComputerizedDynamicAssessment #LanguageAssessment #academicresearch
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
✨Zhi Li presented on Comparing the use of interactional tools in IELTS lecture-based listening tests and the BASE lectures.

#CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #LanguageAssessment #AcademicResearch #IELTS #BASELectures
October 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
✨ Welcome to Day 2 of the Fall 2025 #CALA Conference 💙📚

Get ready for another great day full of exciting presentations!!

#CALA2025 #MSVU #ACÉL #Halifax #Duolingo #DuolingoEnglishTest #LanguageAssessment #CELPIP #toefl #academicresearch
October 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
✨#CALA2025 Work-In-Progress

🔹Susan Ballinger: Assessing cross-linguistic awareness: Illuminating a key construct in multilingualism

🔹Andrea Fraser: Early Reading Screening Measures: How Universal Screeners Support Decision-Making for All Students
October 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#CALA2025 Work-In-Progress

Michelle Chen: Jagged Profiles in High-Stakes Language Testing: Patterns and Implications

Mahdi Ramezani: From Trust to Test Scores: Digital Confidence and Fairness Mediating Motivation in Adaptive (DET) and Traditional Language Testing (IELTS)
October 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
#CALA2025 Work-In-Progress

🔹Kevin Croisetière-Otis: Professional Representations of FFL Classroom Assessment: Discourses of Quebec Teachers in Vietnam

🔹 Ramsey CardWell: Predictive Validity of DET Scores in Canadian Higher Education English
October 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
✨#CALA2025 Work-In-Progress

🔹Han Lai: Fluent Readers, Stronger Speakers: Predicting Oral Language Skills in ELL and Non-ELL Students

🔹John Smith III: Indigenizing English Placement Assessment: Transforming Assessment for Indigenous Learners' Success
October 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Wrapped up Day 1 of #CALA2025 with our Work-In-Progress discussions. So inspired by the incredible range of talks today!

#MSVU #AcademicResearch #Duolingo #LanguageAssessment
October 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
❇️ Ramsey Caldwell with #Duolingo discussed a study extended time accommodations on a computer-adaptive high-stakes English test. 💻💬

#CALA2025 #CALA/ACEL #LanguageAssessment #DuolingoEnglishTest #ELL #MSVU #Halifax #LanguageTest
October 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
✨Johanathan Woodworth presented on educator perspectives on AI literacy and fairness in language assessment and feedback. 💬📚

#CALA2025 #CALA/ACÉL #MSVU #MountSaintVincentUniversity #MSVUResearch #TESL #LanguageAssessment #AI #Literacy
October 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🔹Beverly Baker and Heike Neumann highlighted critical issues in language assessment, including extended time accommodations in computer-adaptive English testing and the broader implications for TESL contexts.

#CALA2025 #msvu_halifax #LanguageAssessment #TESL
October 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
✨Keynote Speaker Spiros Papageorgiou presents on Methodologies for Mapping Test Scores to External Standards in the Canadian Context. 🎓🇨🇦

#CALA2025 #LanguagingAssessment #ETS #MSVU #LanguageScores #LanguageProficiency #Canada
October 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
💡Meaningful contributions and discussions #CALA2025 #MSVU

🔹 Christine Doe – Taking a positive turn for the affective dimension of the Learning-Oriented Assessment Framework: “These things give us courage”

🔹 Meng-Hsu Lee – A mixed-methods investigation into raters’ assessments of prosodic features
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🌟 #CALA2025
Amazing presentations on diverse perspectives in language research and assessment:

🔹 Matthieu Meignan – Consequential validity for minoritized communities through experiential knowledge (Bilingual EN/FR)

🔹 Pelin Irgin – Note-taking in academic listening: A translanguaging perspective
October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM