Each team is co-ordinated by a team leader. The other team members are external consultants, who have experience either of teaching Catalan abroad or of setting examinations. Each team member selects material from a range of different sources, which include newspapers and magazines, letters, brochures, advertisements and radio items . 1.2 Test item writing items are written by individual team members and then subjected to rigorous vetting and editing by the whole team and the team leader. An Examinations Officer supervises the process of item writing and test construction.
Guidance is given to each member of the item writing team.
The quality of tests is ensured by a committee made up of experts from institutions associated with the teaching of Catalan as a Foreign Language. Together with the team co-ordinators, they meet twice during the setting of the examinations to check the suggested items and assess their suitability. 1.3 Pretesting Owing to the limited number of candidates, no formal pretesting of materials takes place at present, but feedback is obtained and the suitability of items checked by a committee, as described above. The section which tests grammar and vocabulary is marked by the same teachers using a mark scheme . Marks are recorded on mark sheets.