2025, The Hague, Netherlands: Assessing Writing Proficiency in an AI Era: Validity Challenges and Future Directions

Programme

Presentations

  1. BILC update
  2. Operational View on Writing Skills Col Henk Kiffen, NLD, DCOM NAEW&CF 
  3. Interactions between the Writing Skill, the Teaching of Writing, the Writing Task, the Writer’s Ability Level, and the Use of Generative AI, Ray Clifford, USA
  4. STANAG 6001 Language Testing: Building Resilience in War, Viktoriia Krykun, UKR
  5. Maintaining Test Integrity in Writing Assessments with implications for: Item types and design; Rubrics; Identification and dealing with templated responses, Dr Rose Clesham, GBR
  6. Strategies for the Design of Writing Assessments to Ensure Construct Validity and Test Integrity, Dr Rose Clesham, GBR
  7. Human Cognition in Writing versus AI-generated Text, Tamar Shalamberidze, GEO
  8. Assessing Writing Proficiency in an AI Era: A Summary of AI tools used, Jan Křivka and Irena Obručová, CZE
  9. Mind-Full – a Creative Mind in the Age of AI, Karl Testor, AUT
  10. Closing remarks

BILC Working Groups and Courses

  1. Update of the Working Group on the Revision of STANAG 6001, Julie Dubeau, CAN
  2. Update of the JTAC Working Group, Kåre Kildevang, DNK
  3. Update on the Shared Item Bank Working Group, Nancy Powers, CAN
  4. Updates to ALTS Module 2, Testing Writing Peggy Garza, USA and Merit Kompus, EST
  5. Update on the STATS seminar , Inga Fārte-Zālīte, LVA

Digital posters

  1. Assessing online – Experience feedback & tips for a smooth transition, Esther Furrer, FRA
  2. A Brief History of Machine Scoring, Andrea Gjorevski USA
  3. Design Better, Write Smarter with AI, Mariana Ionescu, ROU

Summaries

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