Project overview The main goal of this secondment is to strengthen research and enterprise links with Pearson plc, especially with the Pearson English unit. Staff Lead researchers Professor Ying Zheng PhD Professor Research interests Psychometrics and test validation; Human scoring vs. machine scoring; Statistics in applied l… Mandarin exams in the UK school system, including A-Level and GCSE exams; Mandarin Chinese te… Learner motivation and language teaching pedagogy; ESL/EFL learner characteristics and test p… Connect with Ying Email: Ying.Zheng@soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Language Assessment and Testing Unit (LATU) LATU’s mission is to further innovative language assessment and testing research in a multicultural and multimodal world in the digital age and to promote knowledge exchange and dissemination. Research outputs Ying Zheng, Catherine Doyle, David Booth & Mike Mayor, 2023 Type: report Ying Zheng, Catherine Doyle, David Booth & Mike Mayor, 2023 Type: report