ÿþ<html> <!--This file created 3/12/04 2:30 PM by Claris Home Page version 3.0--> <head> <title>MwALT- Midwest Association of Language Testers</title> <meta name=GENERATOR content="Claris Home Page 3.0" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><script language="JavaScript"><!-- function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v2.0 if (document.MM_swapImgData != null) for (var i=0; i<(document.MM_swapImgData.length-1); i+=2) document.MM_swapImgData[i].src = document.MM_swapImgData[i+1]; } function MM_preloadImages() { //v2.0 if (document.images) { var imgFiles = MM_preloadImages.arguments; if (document.preloadArray==null) document.preloadArray = new Array(); var i = document.preloadArray.length; with (document) for (var j=0; j<imgFiles.length; j++) if (imgFiles[j].charAt(0)!="#"){ preloadArray[i] = new Image; preloadArray[i++].src = imgFiles[j]; } } } function MM_swapImage() { //v2.0 var i,j=0,objStr,obj,swapArray=new Array,oldArray=document.MM_swapImgData; for (i=0; i < (MM_swapImage.arguments.length-2); i+=3) { objStr = MM_swapImage.arguments[(navigator.appName == 'Netscape')?i:i+1]; if ((objStr.indexOf('document.layers[')==0 && document.layers==null) || (objStr.indexOf('document.all[') ==0 && document.all ==null)) objStr = 'document'+objStr.substring(objStr.lastIndexOf('.'),objStr.length); obj = eval(objStr); if (obj != null) { swapArray[j++] = obj; swapArray[j++] = (oldArray==null || oldArray[j-1]!=obj)?obj.src:oldArray[j]; obj.src = MM_swapImage.arguments[i+2]; } } document.MM_swapImgData = swapArray; //used for restore } //--></script> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/newrollover/down11.gif','#949663336880');MM_preloadImages('images/newrollover/down12.gif','#949663371040');MM_preloadImages('images/newrollover/down21.gif','#949663412790');MM_preloadImages('images/newrollover/down22.gif','#949663434430');MM_preloadImages('images/newrollover/down31.gif','#949663451180');MM_preloadImages('images/newrollover/down32.gif','#949663492760')"> <p></p><div align="center"> <center><img src="images/newtitle.gif" width=420 height=200 align=bottom /> <h4><a href="http://apling.public.iastate.edu/mwalt/2011/index.html">Thirteenth Annual MwALT Conference</a></h4> <p>Iowa State University, Friday &amp; Saturday, September 16-17, 2011</p> <h4> <a href="mwalt2010pictures/index.htm"> Pictures from the 2010 Conference at Wright State University</a></h4> <h4><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>MwALT</b> is an organization for educators at all levels, program administrators, educational publishers and testing development companies, students, policy makers, business and industry managers, school psychologists, counselors and support personnel who have an interest in language testing.</font></h4> <p> </p></center><p></p><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=450> <tr> <td> <p><a href="mission.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('document.r1','document.r1','images/newrollover/down11.gif','#949663336880')"><img src="images/newrollover/over11.GIF" width=225 height=60 border=0 align=bottom name=r1 /></a><a href="invitation.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('document.r2','document.r2','images/newrollover/down12.gif','#949663371040')"><img src="images/newrollover/over12.GIF" width=225 height=60 border=0 align=bottom name=r2 /></a> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><a href="application.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('document.r3','document.r3','images/newrollover/down21.gif','#949663412790')"><img src="images/newrollover/over21.GIF" width=225 height=60 border=0 align=bottom name=r3 /></a><a href="meeting.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('document.r4','document.r4','images/newrollover/down22.gif','#949663434430')"><img src="images/newrollover/over22.GIF" width=225 height=60 border=0 align=bottom name=r4 /></a> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><a href="conference.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('document.r5','document.r5','images/newrollover/down31.gif','#949663451180')"><img src="images/newrollover/over31.GIF" width=225 height=60 border=0 align=bottom name=r5 /></a><a href="links.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('document.r6','document.r6','images/newrollover/down32.gif','#949663492760')"><img src="images/newrollover/over32.GIF" width=225 height=60 border=0 align=bottom name=r6 /></a> </p></td> </tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Announcement: Best Student Paper Award (2011)</strong></p> <p>The winner of the 2011 MwALT Best Student Paper Award is Yujie Jia, University of California, Los Angeles, for her paper  Justifying Score-based Interpretations from a Second Language Oral Test: Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis . 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