The CEFR and language examinations: a toolkit

The CEFR has had a particular influence on language assessment. The following tools are available to assessment providers and other practitioners with an interest in language testing: 

• a Manual for Relating Language Examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment accompanied by Further Material on Maintaining Standards across Languages, Contexts and Administrations by exploiting Teacher Judgment and IRT Scaling.
• a technical Reference Supplement to the Manual for Relating Examinations to the CEFR
• a Manual for Language test development and examining for use with the CEFR – produced by ALTE on behalf of the Language Policy Unit, Council of Europe (2011). This Manual has also been translated into German and into Basque.
• illustrations of the European levels of language proficiency
• content analysis grids for speaking, writing, listening and reading materials
• the proceedings of the colloquium on Standard Setting Research and its Relevance to the CEFR
• Reference Level Descriptions (RLD) for national and regional languages. More...