Speakers
Paula Simões (IAVE, CAPLE)
Paula Simões é especialista em avaliação em educação, tem participado em várias ações de formação da ALTE, desde 2009, e é formadora acreditada no âmbito das Didáticas Específicas (Inglês/Alemão) e de Avaliação da Oralidade (línguas estrangeiras e língua materna). Paula Simões é também autora de materiais didáticos para o Inglês e coautora das Metas de aprendizagem para as línguas estrangeiras (ME/DGIDC, 2011), tendo colaborado ainda com o British Council num estudo sobre a implementação do ensino bilingue. Através do IAVE, foi a gestora nacional do projeto Cambridge _English for Schools Portugal_, IAVE, de 2014 a 2016. Foi Diretora de Serviços do IAVE entre 2017 e 2024 e, de 2019 a 2024, subdiretora do CAPLE, de que é atualmente consultora.
Irene Cadime (CIEC, Universidade do Minho)
Irene is an Assistant Researcher at the Research Center on Child Studies (CIEC), Institute of Education, University of Minho, Portugal. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, and her research interests include psychometrics, psychological and educational assessment, as well as learning and developmental difficulties. Her work has focused on the development, adaptation, and validation of assessment instruments for children and adolescents, with particular emphasis on ensuring fairness and validity across diverse populations—especially in the domains of oral and written language assessment. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed international journals and actively collaborates on interdisciplinary research projects.
Bert Wylin (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Televic Education)
Bert Wylin has both an academic and entrepreneurial profile. He holds a master's degree in linguistics (French, Spanish). Since 1993, he worked at KU Leuven, where he headed the Education Innovation Centre, for the integration of EdTech into university education. Those were the pioneering years of EdTech. In 2001, he founded a spin-off company from KU Leuven University, now Televic Education, developing and servicing educational technology projects and products. Today, Bert's focus is on the content side of e-assessment: how can technology best meet the didactic and pedagogical needs of content and skills measurement and assessment? He is founder and inspirer of the assessmentQ platform. As a research fellow at KU Leuven ITEC, his research focuses on (big) data analysis in e-assessment in general and more specifically in language assessment, and recently in the use of AI in e-assessment.
Carolyn Westbrook (freelance teacher trainer)
Dr Carolyn Westbrook is a Test Development Researcher at the British Council and freelance teacher trainer. She has worked on a number of testing and assessment development projects and provided language assessment literacy training for teachers around the world. Formerly an Associate Professor in EFL, Carolyn is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE) and has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer for over 30 years. She has a wide range of experience teaching and assessing General English, Business English, EAP and ESP.
