Ute KnochUte Knoch is the Director of the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in the area of writing assessment, rating processes, assessing languages for academic and professional purposes, and placemen testing. She was the Co-president of the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australian and New Zealand (ALTAANZ) between 2015-2016 and currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA). In 2014, Dr Knoch was awarded the TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award by the Educational Testing Service (Princeton, US), recognizing her contribution to language assessment. Read More Read Less