Dear Language Instructor, As a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I am conducting my doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professor Fred Davidson, and I would like to invite you to participate in my research project. The purpose of the study is to provide information to teacher educators in language assessment to reflect the factors that most influence teachers in developing assessment skills. It is important we hear the voices of language teachers? needs of assessment skills and knowledge in developing these courses. If you have taken a Language Assessment/Testing/Evaluation course or assessment related workshop you are eligible for this study. Please complete a survey about the characteristics and effectiveness of Language Assessment Courses. It can be found at: *http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/287646/language-assessment-teacher* This survey will take approximately 15 minutes of your time and begins with a consent form. Please complete this survey by August 1, 2010. If you have any questions about this project, you may contact me, Heejeong Jeong (hjeong5@xxxxxxxxxxxx) or Dr. Fred Davidson (fgd@xxxxxxxxxxxx). We would be grateful if you could circulate this email to any language instructor who might have taken a language assessment related course or workshop. We look forward to your response. Thank you, Heejeong Jeong, Doctoral Candidate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and: Professor Fred Davidson Department of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------