ALTAANZ CONFERENCE BEST STUDENT PAPER PRESENTATION AWARD
2016 Award Winners
I am pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the ALTAANZ Best Student Paper Award is Michelle Czajkowski from the University of Melbourne for her paper entitled ‘Judgements of writing proficiency by non-native and native English speaking teachers: comparing holistic and analytical scoring’.
The committee was impressed with the quality of Michelle’s presentation, recognising the significance and topicality of her subject to the field, addressing as it did the question of whether L1 background has an effect on how raters approach the rating of L2 writing. Michelle’s study was well-situated in the existing research, which has as yet no consensus, and her research design and its limitations were thoroughly explained. Michelle’s findings have clear implications for recruitment of raters, for examiner training, and for test development. She had an engaging manner with the audience, and her well-articulated responses to questions demonstrated confidence and clarity.
The committee would also like to commend Naoki Ikeda from the University of Melbourne for his presentation entitled ‘Assessing L2 learners’ oral pragmatic and interactional abilities for university settings: implications for classroom assessment’, whom we nominate as the runner-up in this year’s award.
I am pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the ALTAANZ Best Student Paper Award is Michelle Czajkowski from the University of Melbourne for her paper entitled ‘Judgements of writing proficiency by non-native and native English speaking teachers: comparing holistic and analytical scoring’.
The committee was impressed with the quality of Michelle’s presentation, recognising the significance and topicality of her subject to the field, addressing as it did the question of whether L1 background has an effect on how raters approach the rating of L2 writing. Michelle’s study was well-situated in the existing research, which has as yet no consensus, and her research design and its limitations were thoroughly explained. Michelle’s findings have clear implications for recruitment of raters, for examiner training, and for test development. She had an engaging manner with the audience, and her well-articulated responses to questions demonstrated confidence and clarity.
The committee would also like to commend Naoki Ikeda from the University of Melbourne for his presentation entitled ‘Assessing L2 learners’ oral pragmatic and interactional abilities for university settings: implications for classroom assessment’, whom we nominate as the runner-up in this year’s award.
2014 Joint Winners
Ali Rastgou, University of Melbourne
"Assessing the impact of teacher feedback on accuracy in the writing of EFL learners: A longitudinal study"
Chao Han, Macquarie University
"Measuring rater variability in interpreter performance testing: Using Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Rasch Measurement."
2012 Winner
Nick Zhiwei Bi, University of Sydney
"Exploring the relationship between test-takers' lexicon-grammatical strategic processing and their test performance"
Ali Rastgou, University of Melbourne
"Assessing the impact of teacher feedback on accuracy in the writing of EFL learners: A longitudinal study"
Chao Han, Macquarie University
"Measuring rater variability in interpreter performance testing: Using Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Rasch Measurement."
2012 Winner
Nick Zhiwei Bi, University of Sydney
"Exploring the relationship between test-takers' lexicon-grammatical strategic processing and their test performance"