天美传媒

I have worked with a range of international language testing agencies in a consultancy role. The most longstanding of these is Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the US. From 2001 鈥� 2005 I sat on the TOEFL Committee of Examiners (CoE) and chaired their research committee from 2003, overseeing CoE funded research on the TOEFL iBT test design and roll-out.

I have published . My h-index is 35. In 2011 I won the ILTA article award for 鈥淭est Architecture, Test Retrofit鈥� published in Language Testing. In 2016 I won the SAGE/ILTA book award jointly for the monograph听Re-examining Language Testing: A philosophical and social inquiry听(Routledge), and the edited volume听The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing.

Although I have published widely in applied linguistics and language testing, the focus of my research has been on the assessment of speaking, rating scale design, language assessment literacy (LA)), and the philosophy of assessment. In 2009 I was a Leverhulme Research Fellow, during which time I developed a model of LAL that was published in 2012.

Following an 11-year career as a language teacher I started to teach applied linguistics and language testing in Higher Education. I have held academic posts at the Universities of Surrey, Dundee, and Leicester. In 2014 I was awarded a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship for contributions to assessment literacy, teacher education, and information dissemination through my website:

I have supervised countless MA dissertations and some 20 PhD dissertations. I have also had the pleasure of co-supervising doctoral dissertations at universities which were in the process of setting up their own doctoral programmes, primarily in Thailand.

I have given hundreds of invited presentations and seminars around the world. Of particular importance, in 2021 I gave the Messick Memorial Lecture at the Language Testing Research Colloquium, awarded by ETS, in which I reviewed current validity theories in the post-Messick consensus era.