Guoxing Yu is Professor of Language Assessment and Director of Research Centre for Educational Assessment and Evaluation. He is an expert member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA). He earned his PhD in 2005 from Bristol; his dissertation, supervised by Professor Pauline Rea-Dickins, was awarded the Jacqueline A. Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award by Educational Testing Service, USA (2008). He is an Executive Editor of Assessment in Education (since 2010), and serves on the editorial boards of Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Assessing Writing, and Language Testing in Asia. He is the co-editor of the book series Language Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, China). He has published in Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics Review, Assessing Writing, Assessment in Education, Educational Research, International Journal of Listening, Language Assessment Quarterly and Language Testing.
Guoxing has directed several research projects on IELTS and the Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT). Two of these IELTS projects used eye-tracking as the main data collection tool to investigate candidates’ test-taking processes when they complete IELTS Academic Writing Task One. He has also completed another five eye-tracking projects (as PI or Co-I) which investigated c-test, integrated writing tasks in Chinese and English as in HKDSE examinations, lexical tone perception, graph-based and video-based Speaking tasks. In addition, he is a research mentor of a colleague at Bristol for his eye-tracking study funded by ESRC on technology use in translation training. Collaborating with Dr Aryadoust, Dr Nishikawa and Dr Owen, Guoxing will work on a new eye-tracking study on the relationships between test takers’ attention, item difficulty, and item type in the Aptis Grammar & Vocabulary test.
Guoxing has supervised two PhD students to successful completion who used eye-tracking technology to examine Listening and Writing tasks respectively. Dr Kwon and Dr Nishikawa are members of this Special Interest Group. Currently he is supervising another three doctoral students who are conducting innovative eye-tracking research on picture-based speaking tasks for young learners, automated writing evaluation system, and diagnostic assessment.