Guoxing Yu

Dr Guoxing Yu is a Research Associate at the University of Bristol. He has research interests in language testing, assessment of learning power and school effectiveness in relation to language skills. His PhD research, supervised by Professor Pauline Rea-Dickins, focused on the use of summarisation tasks as a measure of reading comprehension. He is currently working on a Spaan Fellowship project investigating lexical diversity of test takers' speaking and writing task performance; and co-directing a DFID-funded large-scale project which uses multilevel modelling techniques to examine what school factors affect students' English reading abilities in the Sub-Saharan African contexts.