Student Awards

ECOLT presents an award for best student paper presented. At the time of the conference, all authors on student papers must be actively enrolled as graduate students.

Congratulations to our past winners!

2023| Jieun Kim, Maggie McGehee,  and Anupama Reddy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

"Streamlining a reading placement test: Insights from factor analysis and Rasch modeling"

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2021| Yunjung Ku, Caitlyn Pineault, & Negar Siyari, Georgetown University

"How language skills relate: Investigating students' perception of speaking performance in light of TOEIC scores"

2020| Olena Rossi, Lancaster University

"The role of specifications and sample items in writing: An empirical exploration"

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2019 | Scott Grapin, New York University

"Beyond just language use: Using multimodal tasks to assess English learners in science"

2018 | Heidi Banerjee, Teachers College, Columbia University

"Measuring complex constructs of second language communicative competence using scenario-based assessment"

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2017 | Megan Masters, University of Maryland

"Pathways to Proficiency"

2016 | Meg Montee, Georgia State University

"Textual appropriation in a large-scale assessment of academic writing development for English language learners"

Meg Montee