Research & Collaboration
Professor Liying Cheng devotes her research to the symbiosis of teaching, learning and assessment. Her primary research interests are the impact of large-scale testing on instruction, the relationships between assessment and instruction, and the academic and professional acculturation of international and new immigrant students, workers, and professionals. Liying conducts the majority of her research within the context of teaching and learning English as a second and foreign language (including immersion and multilingual contexts).
Recently Funded Research Projects
Assessment in Higher Education: Assessment Strategies in Higher Education: Principles, Practices, & E-Applications
Christopher DeLuca (PI)
Liying Cheng (Co-Investigator)
Funded by ECampus Ontario ($200,000)
Beating the Odds: An Intergenerational Examination of Cultural Barriers to Postsecondary Education for Low Income Ontario Youth.
Alana Butler (PI)
Liying Cheng (Co-Investigator)
Funded by SSHRC ($57,395)
Test Preparation: Does It Enhance Test Performance And English Language Proficiency?
Liying Cheng (PI)
Hong Wang, Lynette May, Shahrzad Saif (Co-Investigators)
Funded by SSHRC ($200,005)
Second Language Immersion and Students' Academic Success
Liying Cheng (PI)
John Kirby, Lesly Wade-Woolley, Haiyan Qiang (Co-Investigators)
Funded by SSHRC ($57,395)
What's in a Grade? A Multiple Perspective Validity Study on Grading Policies, Practices, Values and Consequences
Liying Cheng (PI)
Christopher DeLuca (Co-Investigator)
Funded by SSHRC ($349,532)
Impact of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test on Second Language Students
Liying Cheng (PI)
Janna Fox, Don Klinger (Co-Investigators)
Funded by SSHRC ($130,627)
Motivation, Test Anxiety, and Language Test Performance: An International Investigation
Liying Cheng (PI)
Don Klinger, Janna Fox, Yan Jin, Jessica Wu (Co-Investigators)
Funded by SSHRC ($75,000)
An Investigation of ESL/EFL Teachers' Classroom Assessment Practices
Liying Cheng (PI)
Todd Rogers (Co-Investigator)
Funded by SSHRC ($120,000)
Research dissemination through Open Access Article:
Compassion, Acquisition, Respect, Evaluation (CARE): Key to Academic Acculturation