Project overview 2023 CHEP Enhancement Funds Staff Lead researcher 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 Other researchers Dr Ben Davies PhD Lecturer Research interests Mathematics education Comparative judgement Assessment methods in higher education Connect with Ben Email: ben.davies@soton.ac.uk