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GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

 

1.        Academic Coordinator at Florida State University of the FSU/ARAMCO MATESL Program delivered on site for ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia (1982‑1985).

2.        USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing and curriculum design in Yugoslavia (1985).

3.        Sole Investigator University of Hawaii Research and Training Revolving Fund Grant (1986‑1987) - ELI Curriculum Development Project.

4.        Principal Investigator University of Hawaii Educational Improvement Fund Grant (1986‑1987) English/ESL Writing Project.

5.        Principal Investigator University of Hawaii Educational Improvement Fund (1987) Foreign Teaching Assistant Workshop.

6.        USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing in Mexico (1988).

7.        USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on curriculum development in Thailand (1988).

8.        Consultant on SEASSI Test Development and Program Evaluation Project (1988-1989).

9.        Contracted for linguistic analysis of the HSTEC and materials for remediation of secondary level SLEP students in the language needed to take the HSTEC under Project BIBS (supported by a federal grant administered through the DOE during 1989).

10.     Consultant on SEASSI Test Development and Program Evaluation Project (1990-1991).

11.     Co-investigator UH EIF Grant (1989‑1990) Computer Assisted Reading for ESL Students.

12.     Consultant on Punana Leo Pre-school (Federally funded) Evaluation Project (1990).

13.     USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on curriculum development and computerized language testing in Morocco (1991).

14.     Co-author National Foreign Languages Resource Center (NFLRC) Grant Proposal (successfully funded 1990-present).

15.     Co-author NFLRC research grant to develop language tests for intercultural pragmatics for English and Japanese (1991-1995).

16.     Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant for Teaching and Research at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1992).

17.     USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing and curriculum development in Indonesia (1993).

18.     Contracted with Sony Enterprises to write the SCALE tests (four written tests, and four listening comprehension tests) (1994-1995).

19.     USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing and curriculum development in France (1995).

20.     Contracted with Educational Testing Service to consult on the research processes for the TOEFL 2000 project (1995).

21.     Contracted with Motorola Japan to consult regularly on curriculum development (1995).

22.     USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing and curriculum design in Turkey (1996).

23.     Contracted with Lateral Communications to write achievement and placement tests for Longman’s Impact textbooks (1996-1997).

24.     Co-author NFLRC research grant to develop performance-based and portfolio language tests (1995-1999).

25.     USIS Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing and curriculum development in Turkey (1999).

26.     Co-author NFLRC research grant to develop computer-based language tests (1999-2001).

27.     Co-investigator University of Hawaii Educational Improvement Fund Grant (2000) Investigation of the UH Japanese Language Placement Test.

28.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to evaluate the national English language curriculum for junior and senior high schools in Tunisia (2000).

29.     Contracted with Foothill-De Anza Community College, Los Altos Hills, CA to analyze and revise their English Language Placement Test, 2000.  

30.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing and curriculum development in the United Arab Emirates and Oman (2001).

31.     Co-author NFLRC research grant to survey placement-testing methods in foreign language education (2002-present).

32.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to evaluate the national English language curriculum for grades 4-12 in Turkey (2002).

33.     Consultant with Harcourt Testing on setting standards for the SELP (2003).

34.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to help with the development of the new “unified” national English examination in the Russian Federation (2004).

35.     Consultant CASL Grant, University of Maryland to review the literature on language performance testing (2004)

36.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing for teachers, teacher trainers, and inspectors in Senegal (2005).

37.     Member of the Expert Local Advisory Board for the US Department of Education Grant for "Identifying and responding to evaluation needs in college foreign language programs" (2005-2008).

38.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to lecture on language testing for teachers, teacher trainers, and testers in the Ukraine (2005).

39.     Consultant for Bias Analysis of the Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE), English Language Proficiency Assessment, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Monterrey, CA (2006).

40.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to work on the secondary English language curriculum and lecture on related issues to teachers, teacher trainers, and testers in Cyprus (2006).

41.     US State Department Academic Specialist Grant to consult and lecture on language testing and related issues to teachers, teacher trainers, and testers in Dubai and Oman (2007).

 

LARGE-SCALE PROGRAM EVALUATION PROJECTS

 

1.        Evaluation and linguistic analysis of the HSTEC and materials for remediation of secondary level SLEP students in the language needed to take the HSTEC under Project BIBS; Supported by a federal grant administered through the Hawaii State Department of Education (Evaluator, 1989).

2.        Punana Leo Pre-school Evaluation Project; Federally funded (Evaluation Consultant, 1990).

3.        Evaluation of the National Basic-Education and Secondary English Language Curricula for all junior and senior high schools in Tunisia; Sponsored by the US State Department and the Tunisian Ministry of Education, Tunis, Tunisia (External evaluator, 2000).

4.        Evaluation of English language teaching materials in development for all public and private K-12 schools; Sponsored by the US State Department and the Curriculum Commission of the Ministry of Education, Ankara, Turkey (External evaluator, 2002).

5.        External evaluation of the English Language Proficiency Programme, Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, University of the South Pacific (with campuses in Fiji, Vanuatu, and Samoa); Sponsored by the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands (External evaluator, 2005).

6.        External evaluation of gymnasium and lyceum (junior and senior high school) level English language curriculum, Ministry or Education, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus (External evaluator, 2006).

 

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