Participants in the program must possess the following qualifications:
• Participants must be drawn from the existing English language teacher cadre in K-12 schools under the auspices of the Ministry of Education in Thailand.
• Participants must have at least five years of classroom teaching experience in the related subject area of the test items to be developed.
• Participants must have graduated in the area of English language.
• As this particular workshop is intended for teachers of English, the teachers should have a working knowledge of the existing national curriculum for the subject
• Participants must demonstrate a proven level of English proficiency based on the outcome of standardized English language proficiency tests such as TOEFL, TOEIC, or IELTS. Participants need not have prior experience in item writing, test development or psychometrics.