Nikola Dobrić is a Senior Scientist at the Department of English, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main research interests are assessment of writing, rater cognition, language assessment in general, and corpus linguistics.Hermann Cesnik is a statistician from the Language Testing Center and the Central Computing Services (ZID) at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main research interests are theory of measurement and psychometrics in the broad area of language assessment.Claudia Harsch is Professor of Research into Language Learning and Teaching at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her main research interests are language assessment, teacher education, and the implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference.

• language testing – assessment – test validity – C-test – psychometrics – washback