Hello! I’m Heidi. I am a language assessment specialist, applied linguistics researcher, and second language educator. I received my Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College Columbia University in 2019.
Currently, I am a psychometrician on the Qualification Assessments team at PSI Services LLC, where I work on test development, test/item analysis, rater analysis, scaling, standard-setting, and research across our language assessments and high-school equivalent qualification assessment. I also have extensive experience in test design, item writer training, item writing guidance development, test content review, fairness review, and CEFR alignment in language assessments. |
Research Interests
My research primarily focuses on second language assessment, with particular interests in game- and scenario-based assessment, second language proficiency construct representation, learner cognition, assessment validation, and quantitative research methods.
External Professional Services
- Editorial Board Member. The Korean Language in America (KLA)
- Editorial Board Member, Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT)
Awards & Grants
- 2020 Runner-up of the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award
- 2019 Teachers College Provost's Grant for Professional Development
- 2018 NU Global Teaching Excellence Award
- 2018 ECOLT Best Student Paper Award
- 2018 ETS TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment
- 2018 Teachers College Provost's Grant for Professional Development
- 2017 MwALT Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Language Assessment Research
- 2017 TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant (main sponsor: Cambridge English Language Assessment)
- 2016 Teachers College Provost's Grant for Professional Development
- 2016 British Council Assessment Research Award