Ute Knoch

Associate Professor Ute Knoch is the Director of the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in the areas of writing assessment, rating processes, assessing languages for academic and professional purposes, test validation and placement testing. She is the author or co-author of ‘Fairness, Justice and Language Assessment’ (2019, OUP, with Tim McNamara and Jason Fan), ‘Assessing English for Professional Purposes’ (2020, with Susy Macqueen) and ‘Scoring Second Language Spoken and Written Performance’ (2021, with Judith Fairbairn and Jin Yan).

She was the Co-president of the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australian and New Zealand (ALTAANZ) from 2015-2016 and currently serves as the Vice-President and has served on the Executive Board of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA) from 2011 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019.