Project overview Adventures in Research Award (GBP 6, 491), Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton 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