Continuing development
In keeping with this history of innovation, the IELTS partners continue to be committed to the ongoing development of the test. A revision project for the Speaking Test was launched in 1998 and the revised IELTS Speaking Test was introduced in July 2001.
New assessment criteria for the Writing Test were operational from January 2005. A computerised version of IELTS was piloted in 2005 at a number of IELTS centres. Information on all these projects can be found in past issues of the IELTS Annual Review, and in Cambridge English Language Assessment's quarterly publication - Research Notes.