Name:
Aptis for Teens: Analysis of Pilot Test Data
Role:
Consultant
Year:
2015 - 2018
Name:
Pearson Test of English Academic Item Bank Recalibration
Role:
Consultant
Year:
2014 - 2018
Name:
Exploring the effectiveness of online feedback at different CEFR
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2014
Name:
Linking a test to CEFR: An application of extended descriptors
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2014
Name:
Incorporating feedback into an online assessment module: Exploring its potential
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2014
Name:
Investigating the Practice of the CEFR outside Europe: A Case Study on English Writing Assessment in China
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2015
Name:
Towards Localisation of a Test: What are the Essential Considerations?
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2016
Name:
EAP Assessments: A study to track test-takers’ progression
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2016
Name:
Measuring language progression using online progress tests: A case study
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2018
Name:
An introduction to Quantitative Methods in Applied Linguistics
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2014
Name:
Statistics for Those Who Dislike Statistics
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2016
Name:
Use and interpretation of statistical analysis procedures to improve testing and assessment (Intermediate level).
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2017
Name:
An investigation into raters' experience of rating different linguistic features
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2013
Name:
An investigation into the writing construct(s) measured in Pearson Test of English Academic
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2013
Name:
Linking to the CEFR: validation using a priori and a posteriori evidence
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2013
Name:
Academic English test performance: the influence of test taker background
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2013
Name:
Test takers, test trainers, and test developers: Are they speaking the same language?
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2012
Name:
English Language Skills and Academic Performance: A Study of Chinese Test Takers
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2012
Name:
Investigating item variables influencing test taker performance on multiple choice items
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2012
Name:
Native speaker responses in language test development.
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2012
Name:
Optimizing raw score usage to reduce measurement error
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
Investigating Item Features that Influence Test-takers’ Performance on 'Summarize-Spoken-Text' Item Type
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
Test repetition or test preparation?
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
Writing Assessment in Pearson Test of English Academic
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
The Role of Native Speaker Responses in Language Test Development
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
Chinese University Students’ Motivation, Anxiety, 福利着片 Awareness, Linguistic Confidence, and English Test Performance: A Correlational and Causal Investigation
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
The validity of using integrated tasks to assess listening skills
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
Assessing Academic English listening: A multi-trait multi-method approach
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2011
Name:
Making language test score report understandable and useful
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2010
Name:
Applying the EALTA guidelines for good practices in language testing in the development of Pearson Test of English Academic
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2010
Name:
Establishing test validity for Pearson Test of English Academic
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2010
Name:
Knowing the test takers: Investigating test taker background, test taker characteristics, and their test performance
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2010
Name:
Applying protocol analysis in analyzing language test validity: A case study
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2009
Name:
Bridging a Language Test and Its Test-takers: A Social Cognitive Investigation
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2008
Name:
Heritage or Non-heritage: A Look into Students' Motivations in Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2008
Name:
A Closer Look at the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test-Takers
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2008
Name:
Success or failure: Students' after-school literacy activities and their literacy performance on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2008
Name:
Investigating Perceived Competence, Personality, and Motivation of Learners of Chinese in North America
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2007
Name:
Students' Computer Use and Literacy Performance
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2006
Name:
Factors influencing ESL/ELD students' performance on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2006
Name:
Do test formats in reading comprehension influence ESL and non-ESL differently?
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2005
Name:
The Challenges of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test for ESL Students
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2005
Name:
Examining the impact of Ontario secondary school literacy test on students
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2004
Name:
How powerful can a test be? A probe into Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2004
Name:
Exploring Factors that Influence ESL/ELD Students' Performance in OSSLT
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2004
Name:
Language teachers across boarders: what are their challenges?
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2018
Name:
Psychometric consultancy on PTE Academic item bank calibration
Role:
Consultant
Year:
2013
Name:
Statistics in Applied Linguistics
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2018
Name:
Investigating Chinese Teachers' Professional Development Needs in Southern UK
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2018
Name:
Data analyst and consultant
Role:
Consultant
Year:
2015
Name:
Exploring Chinese University English Teachers’ Language Assessment Literacy: A Mixed Methods Study (LTF)
Role:
Co-author
Year:
2021
Name:
A Study on Mandarin Chinese Teachers’ Assessment Literacy in the UK
Role:
Co-author
Year:
2021
Name:
Investigating language teacher standards: Lens through published documents and classroom practices (BCLTS)
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2022
Name:
Assimilation and accommodation in feedback provision in China and the UK Higher Education: A tale of two cultures (BAAL)
Role:
Co-author
Year:
2022
Name:
Navigating Mandarin Chinese Teachers’ Experiences in Teaching Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Programme in the UK
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2022
Name:
Untangling the Cobweb of Assessment: Teacher-assessment, Peer-assessment, Self-assessment, and Comparative Judgement
Role:
Co-author
Year:
2022
Name:
Artificial intelligence-generated and human expert-designed vocabulary tests: a comparative study
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2022
Name:
How Does Anxiety Influence Language Performance? From the Perspectives of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Cognitive Test Anxiety
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2019
Name:
Use and interpretation of statistical analysis procedures to improve testing and assessment (Intermediate level)
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2017
Name:
Statistics in Applied Linguistics
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2016
Name:
The Employment of Linguistic Affordances in a Multilingual Transcultural Social Context: Autonomous Chinese Students' Experience in the UK
Role:
Co-author
Year:
2022
Name:
Linguistic and Socio-cultural Strategies in a Transcultural Social Context: Autonomous Chinese-Speaking International Students’ Multidimensional Adjustments in the UK
Role:
Co-author
Year:
2022
Name:
Exploring Adaptive Comparative Judgment to Enhance Peer Marking in a Speaking Test
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2023
Name:
Assessing English as a Lingua Franca: Exploring the Implementation of Phonology Descriptors of the CEFR Using a New Intelligibility Measure
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2023
Name:
Exploring the Potential of Adaptive Comparative Judgement in Speech Intelligibility Evaluation: A Case Study of Chinese English L2 Learners
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2022
Name:
Chinese A-Level Exam Standard Setting: Possibilities and Implications
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2022
Name:
Investigating the A-Level Mandarin Chinese Exam in the UK: From Teachers’ Perspective
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2022
Name:
Aligning A-Level Mandarin Chinese to the Common European Framework of Reference ( CEFR)
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2023
Name:
An Investigation of the Alignment of A-Level Mandarin Chinese to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2023
Name:
Moving beyond a 福利着片 Scale of English: Experimenting and Validating a 福利着片 Scale for Multiple Languages
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2023
Name:
Exploring the localisation of Language Standards: A Comparative Study on GCSE Vocabulary and Grammar
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2023
Name:
Unveiling Speech Intelligibility Construct through the Adaptive Comparative Judgement and Think Aloud Protocol
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
Forum on washback: Revising Test Duration in a High-stakes Test
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
A Novel Dual-Stream Model for Enhanced Automatic Pronunciation Assessment of Non-native English L2 Learners
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
Measuring the Tower: Developing and Validating a Multi-Lingual 福利着片 Scale Using Multiple Approaches
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
Exploring a new method for multi-lingual alignment of language frameworks: Developing a 福利着片 Scale for Multiple Languages Using Comparative Judgement
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
Moving beyond a 福利着片 Scale of English: Experimenting and Validating a 福利着片 Scale for Multiple Languages
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
Continuing Professional Development on Language Assessment and Testing
Role:
Participant
Year:
2024
Name:
IELTS repeat test taking: Stakeholders’ perceptions and test preparation for Speaking
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
Integrating AI into Marking Practices for Postgraduate Writing in a UK University: Assessing the Reliability and Variability of Scores and Rater Behaviors
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2024
Name:
Senior Technical Advisors on Technical Advisory Board
Role:
Consultant
Year:
2024
Name:
External examiner for Huddersfield University’s MA TESOL programme 2024-2027
Role:
Examiner
Year:
2024
Name:
A Washback study of the English test in the Thai university entrance examination on grade 12 students and English teachers
Role:
Examiner
Year:
2015
Name:
PhD viva examination - Bristol University
Role:
Examiner
Year:
2015
Name:
PhD Viva examination - University of Liverpool
Role:
Examiner
Year:
2021
Name:
External examiner for Master of Research thesis - Macquarie University
Role:
Examiner
Year:
2021
Name:
Expert project reviewer for British Council-China’s National Education joint projects
Role:
Participant
Year:
2020
Name:
Refereed journal reviewer
Role:
Contributor
Year:
2015
Name:
Reviewer for LTRC
Role:
Contributor
Year:
2019
Name:
Established Language Assessment and Testing Unit (LATU), University of Southampton 2024
Role:
Other
Year:
2024
Name:
Exploring the interplay between text complexity and test-taker cognitive strategies
Role:
Consultant
Year:
2025
