Brian A. Carroll is currently a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics, focusing on language assessment, at Teachers College, Columbia University. His main academic areas of interest include classroom-based language assessment, pragmatics assessment, educational measurement, and education technology. Brian has an M.A., and Ed.M. in Applied linguistics from Teachers College. Brian currently serves as the Technical Project Coordinator on a grant initiative between the US Department of State, the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Columbia University.