Research project

Exploring AI application in essay-based assignments: affordances and risks

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Dr Ying Zheng
Other researchers:

Dr Ben Davies
Status:

Active

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

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.