We invited Master's and Doctoral level students enrolled on courses in language assessment or a related field to submit their research ideas to us in a 3-minute video.
We encouraged students to be creative and asked them to cover the following points:
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Clear outline of the research area
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Motivation for selecting this topic
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Research Questions
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Approach / methodology
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How this will add to the body of knowledge in language assessment
Our expert panel shortlisted 5 of the submissions and they presented People's Choice Award Voting and the panel themselves selected the Expert Panel's Choice.
The 5 shortlisted student submissions were:
#1 Agustinus Hardi Prasetyo – Iowa State University (00:07)
#2 Jieun Kim – University of Hawaii at Manoa (03:07)
#3 In Ji (Sera) Chun – University of Hawaii at Manoa (06:05)
#4 Nick Glasson – CRELLA (09:09)
#5 Yu Zhang – Beijing Foreign Studies University (12:16)
And the winners were:
Expert Panel's Choice Award Winner: #1 Agustinus Hardi Prasetyo
People's Choice Award Winner: #4 Nick Glasson
Congratulations to our award winners and to all our shortlisted finalists and to all who took part!