About us
The Language Testing Research Group Innsbruck (LTRGI) is a team of researchers based in the Department of Subject-Specific Education in the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Innsbruck. The group’s research interests encompass all aspects of language testing and assessment, with a particular focus on their relation to learning and teaching. We provide a focus group for researchers, teachers, test providers, educational institutions, and government organizations, both nationally and internationally. We engage in both independent and collaborative research, validation and development projects across the globe in education, workplace, industry, government and migration contexts.
We also offer and assists in high-quality research, training, consultancy, and development in the area of language learning and assessment, and combine a broad range of perspectives, experience, and specialist expertise that spans various aspects of assessment, including all stages of task, scale and test development, as well as validation and alignment research.
Our aims:
- To provide state-of-the-art research to inform and improve assessment practices at both high-stakes and classroom level
- To align curricula, teaching practices, standards, and language assessment practices
- To foster assessment literacy across languages and disciplines for different stakeholders
- To support primary, secondary, and tertiary level practitioners in delivering best practice tests
- To promote open science practices
- To apply innovative approaches in language assessment practice and research
Main activities:
- Validation research on high-stakes language tests
- Research into classroom-based language assessment and washback
- Foundational and interdisciplinary research related to applied linguistics
- Custom test development
- Pre-service and in-service teacher training nationally and internationally
- Rater training, standard setting, benchmarking, and scale development workshops
- Consultancies for national and international institutions and organizations on assessment-related matters