Annie Brown

Annie Brown is Head of Educational Assessment in the National Admissions and Placement Office (NAPO) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, United Arab Emirates. Previously, and while undertaking this study, she was Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Language Testing Research Centre at The University of Melbourne. There, she was involved in research and development for a wide range of language tests and assessment procedures, and in language program evaluation. Annie's research interests focus on the assessment of speaking and writing, and the use of Rasch analysis, discourse analysis and verbal protocol analysis. Her books include Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews (Peter Lang, 2005) and the Language Testing Dictionary (CUP, 1999, co-authored with colleagues at the Language Testing Research Centre). She was winner of the 2004 Jacqueline A Ross award for the best PhD in language testing, and winner of the 2003 ILTA (International Language Testing Association) award for the best article on language testing.

Annie Brown is Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Previously she was Head of Educational Assessment in the National Admissions and Placement Office (NAPO) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, United Arab Emirates where she managed a national testing program. Prior to this, Annie was Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Language Testing Research Centre at The University of Melbourne, where she was involved in research and development for a wide range of language tests and assessment procedures, and in language program evaluation. Annie’s research interests focus on the assessment of speaking and writing, and the use of Rasch analysis, discourse analysis and verbal protocol analysis. Her books include Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews (Peter Lang, 2005) and the Language Testing Dictionary (CUP, 1999, co-authored with colleagues at the Language Testing Research Centre). She was winner of the 2004 Jacqueline A Ross award for the best PhD in language testing, and winner of the 2003 International Language Testing Association (ILTA) award for the best article on language testing.