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Aptis in China: Exploring Stakeholders' Perceptions of its Validity and Practicality

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  • Lead researchers:
    Dr Ying Zheng
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Project overview

The British Council East Asia Assessment Research Grant (GBP 5,000), British Council, UK

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ying Zheng PhD

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Psychometrics and test validation; Human scoring vs. machine scoring; Statistics in applied linguistics; Comparative Judgement in language testing
  • Mandarin exams in the UK school system, including A-Level and GCSE exams; Mandarin Chinese teachers’ professional development
  • Learner motivation and language teaching pedagogy; ESL/EFL learner characteristics and test performance
Connect with Ying

Email: Ying.Zheng@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Aptis in China
Ying Zheng & Yanyan Zhang, 2017
Type: report