This report describes the activities, achievements and outcomes
of an English language secondary school exam reform project in Luxembourg. In 2010, as part of reforms and
development of English language teaching in Luxembourg secondary schools, a
number of stakeholders identified the existing system of testing and assessment
to be an obstacle in making the desirable progress. At the same time, those involved
recognised that there was a relative lack of formal expertise in language
testing and assessment amongst the teaching body.Out
of this concern arose the Test Design and Evaluation (TDE) initiative in 2011.
A group of teachers proposed
to improve the existing exams, whilst at the same time
building up language testing expertise within the country as a step towards
establishing a more professional basis for the design of tests. This report describes the training and test development activities that have taken place during
the first three years of the project, and formulates a
number of recommendations to ensure the sustainability of the
high-quality assessment work that has been accomplished.