The First Century of the Baccalauréat Exam

Dr Samira ElAtia is professor of education at the bilingual Faculté Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta in Canada and holds an adjunct professorship at the Center for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation. She specializes in the evaluation of graduate competencies and language assessment. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on assessment for learning, language assessment, introduction of statistical analysis, and research methods. Her research interests focus on issues of bias and fairness in assessment, especially in bilingual contexts, assessment of graduate attributes in higher education, and interaction between assessment and educational legislation. She served as a subject matter expert for several international testing organizations and is the former president of the Canadian Association of Language Assessment. She holds an MA from Illinois State University, USA, and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.