Director: Dr. Janna Fox, Associate Professor, Carleton University

Permanent Board Members
Bruno Zumbo, Professor, University of British Columbia
Timothy Pychyl, Associate Professor, Carleton University

Standing Members
Carolyn Turner, Associate Professor, McGill University
Liying Cheng, Associate Professor, Queen’s University

The Language Assessment and Testing Research Unit (LATRU), 215 Paterson Hall, carries out research related to assessment and test development.

LATRU, under the Direction of Dr. Fox, engages in test development in both high and low stakes settings, and has overseen the development and initial validation of such tests as the Citizenship Application Test, the Oral Proficiency in English Communicative Settings (OPECS), the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment, and numerous placement tests for college and university language programs.

Current LATRU research projects include SSHRC funded studies of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs in Canadian Universities (with Liying Cheng, Queen’s University; and Robert Berman, University of Alberta), and an examination of the impact of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) on second language (L2) learners (with Liying Cheng, Queen’s University; and Donald Klinger, Queen’s University). Dr. Fox is also engaged in research related to English language proficiency requirements for admission to tertiary programs (with Christine Doe, Queen’s University).