Youyi Sun
Major Field
Cognitive Studies, Assessment and Evaluation
Contact Info
Email: youyi.sun@queensu.ca
Supervisor
Research Interests
- Large-scale and classroom language assessment
- Second language acquisition
- Program evaluation
Research Projects
Teachers’ Grading Practices: Influencing Factors, Meaning, and Values Assigned, Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator), Youyi Sun (Co-Investigator), Funded by SEED Research Grants (Faculty of Education, Queen’s University) ($ 5,000)
Context, Construct, and Consequences: Washback of the College English Test in China., Youyi Sun (Principal Investigator), Doctoral dissertation research (Faculty of Education, Queen’s University)
Membership in research groups and associations
- Assessment and Evaluation Group, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University
- Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
- Canadian Association of Language Assessment
- Canadian Educational Researchers’ Association
- International Association of Applied Linguistics
- International Language Testing Association
- The Canadian Society for the Study of Education
Recent Conference Presentations
Sun, Y. (August, 2011). Washback of the College English Test on Students and Their English Language Learning in the Chinese Tertiary Context. Paper presented in a symposium entitled Consequential validity of large-scale testing: Multiple sources of evidence from test-takers organized by Liying Cheng at the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2011), Beijing, China.
Sun, Y. & Cheng, L. (August, 2011). Chinese secondary school English language teachers’ grading practice: Grade interpretation and grade use. Paper presented at the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Beijing, China.
Sun, Y. (June, 2011) Construct validity: exploring the dimensionality of the college English proficiency. Paper presented at the 33rd Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
Sun, Y. (May, 2011). Test dimensionality: IRT analysis of the College English Test. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Annual Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Sun, Y. & Cheng, L. (June, 2011). Teachers’ grading practices: Meaning and values assigned. Paper presented at a symposium entitled What does this mark mean? Teacher and Learner perspectives on classroom assessment organized by Janna Fox at Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (ACLA), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Sun, Y. & Cheng, L. (April, 2011). Teachers’ grading practices: Meaning and values assigned. Paper presented at Gateway Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Sun, Y. (April, 2011). Construct, context and consequence: Washback of the College English Test in China. Paper presented at the Bruno-Jofré Symposium in Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Sun, Y. (January 2011) Assessment of English language learners. The Assessment Lunch and Learn Workshop, AEG, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. Kingston, Canada.
Sun, Y. & Cheng, L. (October, 2010). Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices. Paper presented at the 38th TESL Ontario annual conference, Toronto, Canada.
Sun, Y. (June 2010) The Influence of the Social Interactional Context on Test Performance: A Sociocultural View. Paper presented at Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (ACLA), Montreal, Canada
Sun, Y. (May 2010) Self-Directed Learning and Self-Regulated Learning: A Rose by Any Other Name? Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada
DeLuca, C, Lu, K., & Sun, Y. (May 2010) Assessment for Learning in Practice: Barriers and Possibilities for Teacher Professional Development International. Paper presented at Symposium on Classroom Assessment, Kingston, Canada.
Sun, Y. (April 2010) Grading in Language Assessment: A Literature Review. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Graduate Students in Education Symposium, Kingston, Canada.
Sun, Y. (January 2010) Assessment of English Language Learners. The Brown Bag Blitz Assessment & Evaluation Workshop. Kingston, Canada.
Recent Publications
DeLuca, C, Lu, K., & Sun, Y. & Klinger, D. (in press) Assessment for learning integration: Barriers and possibilities for teacher professional development. Assessment Matters.
Sun, Y. (2011). Grading in language assessment: A literature review. In M. Ingersoll & R. Luce-Kapler (eds.) Graduate student symposium selected papers, Volume 5 (pp.44-65). Kingston, Ontario: Faculty of Education, Queen’s University.
Sun, Y. (Under review). Beyond unidimensionality: applications of item response theory in language assessment. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education.
Sun, Y. (Under review) The influence of the social interactional context on test performance: a sociocultural view. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Sun, Y. (2008) Contemporary Business English: An Integrated Course East China Normal University Press. Shanghai
Sun, Y. (2007) Rethinking Pandora’s Box in language performance assessment.Foreign Languages in China.(2) 50-53
Sun, Y. (2006) The influence of Vygotsky’s psychological developmental theory on SLA research in the west. Social Science Research (12) 68-69
Sun, Y. (2005) Mediating the relationship between theory and practice in foreign language teacher continuing education. Continuing Education Research. (6): 25-27
Sun, Y. (2002) Linguistic considerations of lexical phrases and their pedagogical implications for teaching English as a foreign language. In Liu, F. and Xu, J. (eds.) Research on Foreign Linguistics and Literature. Shenyang, China: Liaoning People’s Press.
Sun, Y. (2000) TEFL in Colleges in China in the 21st century: dilemmas, decisions and development Academic Journal of Jinging Teachers’ College 2000, 4, 21-25.
TA/RA/GTF positions
January 2011 – May 2011
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
EDST 428 (Teaching English as a Second Language, Primary/Junior)
January 2011 – May 2011
Teaching Assistant with Dr. Liying Cheng, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
EDST 409 (Classroom Assessment Practices)
January 2011 – May 2011
Teaching Assistant with Dr. Lyn Shulha and Dr. Don Klinger, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
PROF 150/155 (Assessment and Evaluation)
September 2009 – April 2010
Research assistant with Dr. Liying Cheng, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada