Project overview 2023 CHEP Enhancement Funds 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 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