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Upcoming Fukuoka JALT events:
For past events this year, see our 2023 Archive.
February 11, 2023 (Saturday)
An Introduction to Test Item Analysis Using jMetrik (Trevor Holster)
5:30 PM online and in-person
Update: This event will be HYBRID. It was designed as an online event, so if you've been planning to attend online, please don't worry, you'll still get the full presentation experience. If you're in the area, though, and would like to gather in the same room to get hands-on assistance, come to our usual venue: Elgala (Daimaru East) Building, Tenjin (6 F, Kurume University Satellite Campus), back entrance, map: https://goo.gl/maps/hj8VXmpfjAykeXBV9
Test item analysis can provide valuable information about classroom tests, as well as for researchers and standardized test developers. This workshop is intended to introduce the basic principles of item analysis to novices with no previous experience of test analysis. It will provide hands-on experience using the free jMetrik software package.
Although basic analysis can be conducted in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel, dedicated software such as jMetrik is faster and provides a much deeper range of analysis. However, learning how to import data and conduct the analysis can be difficult for novices. This workshop will provide a walk-through demonstration of data formatting and importation, and then demonstrations of classical and Rasch item analysis. A sample dataset will be provided and participants are encouraged to bring a Windows, Mac, or Linux laptop to practice conducting the analysis.
This presentation is co-sponsored by the JALT CALL SIG and the JALT TEVAL SIG.
Cost: 500 yen to non-JALT members. Free for JALT members.
Location: Come to this website the day of the event to see the Zoom link.
Test item analysis can provide valuable information about classroom tests, as well as for researchers and standardized test developers. This workshop is intended to introduce the basic principles of item analysis to novices with no previous experience of test analysis. It will provide hands-on experience using the free jMetrik software package.
Although basic analysis can be conducted in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel, dedicated software such as jMetrik is faster and provides a much deeper range of analysis. However, learning how to import data and conduct the analysis can be difficult for novices. This workshop will provide a walk-through demonstration of data formatting and importation, and then demonstrations of classical and Rasch item analysis. A sample dataset will be provided and participants are encouraged to bring a Windows, Mac, or Linux laptop to practice conducting the analysis.
This presentation is co-sponsored by the JALT CALL SIG and the JALT TEVAL SIG.
Cost: 500 yen to non-JALT members. Free for JALT members.
Location: Come to this website the day of the event to see the Zoom link.
March 25, 2023 (Saturday)
University Entrance Examinations Stratify High School English Education (Fukunaga, Sunao)
6:15 PM in person
This qualitative study examined how the Japanese university English entrance examination reform functions as policy planning and elucidates how the reform has ended up stratifying high school English teaching practices, exacerbating disparities between students who have access to quality instruction and those who do not. Central to the argument is how the lack of understanding of intersectionality when planning English education policy leads to planning inequality and privileging elites in the Japanese education context.
Keywords
English education policy, university entrance examinations, intersectionality
Schedule:
Cost: 1000 yen to non-JALT members. Free for JALT members.
Location: Elgala (Daimaru East) Building, Tenjin (6 F, Kurume University Satellite Campus; go in the back entrance shown on the map)
If you haven't been to this location before, please note that the entrance is NOT through the department store, it is around the back from the department store entrances, here: https://goo.gl/maps/hj8VXmpfjAykeXBV9 (You'll find this by Googling エルガーラ オフィス棟)
Keywords
English education policy, university entrance examinations, intersectionality
Schedule:
- Doors open 18:00
- Presentation 18:15-19:45
- Out of room by 20:00
Cost: 1000 yen to non-JALT members. Free for JALT members.
Location: Elgala (Daimaru East) Building, Tenjin (6 F, Kurume University Satellite Campus; go in the back entrance shown on the map)
If you haven't been to this location before, please note that the entrance is NOT through the department store, it is around the back from the department store entrances, here: https://goo.gl/maps/hj8VXmpfjAykeXBV9 (You'll find this by Googling エルガーラ オフィス棟)
What's happening around JALT?
With so many JALT events going online, it's possible to participate in chapter events all across the country.
Look at the always-updating list on JALT's website, www.jalt.org/events.
Look at the always-updating list on JALT's website, www.jalt.org/events.
Past Fukuoka JALT events:
(For last year's events, please see our 2022 archive page.)
Special announcement: attendance fees for online presentations.
Fukuoka JALT meetings have always been free for JALT members, and any non-members have paid 1,000円 at the door for each event. When we began holding our events online in mid-2020 we opened them up to everyone for free. However, this is somewhat unsustainable in the longer term, so we are now asking non-JALT-members to pay 500円 to attend our online presentations. There’s no strict requirement that you do so before the event, so if you’re reading this 10 minutes before the meeting starts, please come along and worry about the details later!
We're doing this on a very simple "honor" system. If you're not a JALT member and would like to attend this or any subsequent online Fukuoka JALT presentation, please pay 500円, via PayPal, to fukuokajalttreasury@gmail.com . JALT members (of any chapter) don’t need to pay anything.
If you don't have a credit card, please contact that address for bank transfer details. And if it's all a bit confusing and complicated - then make a mental note that you owe Fukuoka JALT 500 yen and pay us back at a future in-person event. Easy. We'd like to have as many people as possible at our online events, and want to make it as simple as possible for people to participate at the same time as covering our costs.
Fukuoka JALT meetings have always been free for JALT members, and any non-members have paid 1,000円 at the door for each event. When we began holding our events online in mid-2020 we opened them up to everyone for free. However, this is somewhat unsustainable in the longer term, so we are now asking non-JALT-members to pay 500円 to attend our online presentations. There’s no strict requirement that you do so before the event, so if you’re reading this 10 minutes before the meeting starts, please come along and worry about the details later!
We're doing this on a very simple "honor" system. If you're not a JALT member and would like to attend this or any subsequent online Fukuoka JALT presentation, please pay 500円, via PayPal, to fukuokajalttreasury@gmail.com . JALT members (of any chapter) don’t need to pay anything.
If you don't have a credit card, please contact that address for bank transfer details. And if it's all a bit confusing and complicated - then make a mental note that you owe Fukuoka JALT 500 yen and pay us back at a future in-person event. Easy. We'd like to have as many people as possible at our online events, and want to make it as simple as possible for people to participate at the same time as covering our costs.