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Yuerong Sweetland
Dr. Yuerong Liu Sweetland

Assessment Coordinator
liuy@franklin.edu

 

Education


 

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2003, Education
M.A., Tsinghua University, (P.R.C.), 1995, Foreign Languages
B.A., Tianjin University, (P.R.C.), 1992, Foreign Languages
B.E., Tianjin University (P.R.C.), 1992, Economics

 

Professional Licenses and Certifications


2003 Research Methods in Human Resources Development, The Ohio State University
 

Academic/Professional Experience


2005-Present

Franklin University, Assessment Coordinator. Coordinate outcome-based academic assessment across the entire university.

2007-Present Franklin University, Course Manager. Undergraduate courses: Basic Writing I and II.
2004-2005 Capital University, Assessment Analyst. Assisted academic departments and support services in designing and selecting assessment instruments and provided data analysis and summary reports.
2003-2004

Columbus Literacy Council, ESL Instructor. ESL courses for adult learners.

2002-2003 The Ohio State University, Graduate Administrative Associate, "Reading Recovery." Assisted in the research, teaching, and administrative responsibilities for the Reading Recovery program.
1999-2002 The Ohio State University, Graduate Administrative Associate to the Language, Literacy, and Culture Department Chair. Assisted in the research, teaching, and administrative responsibilities for the Language, Literacy, and Culture Department Chair.
1998-1999 The Ohio State University, University Fellowship Recipient.
1998

Evaluator (Business English Certificate Test), Government of P.R.C. in cooperation with Cambridge ESL, U.K.

1997 Adult Education Instructor (English), China University of Petroleum, Beijing.
1997 Writing Test Evaluator (College English Test), Government of P.R.C.
1996 Tsinghua University, Committee Member, Development of the College English Test.
1995-1998 Tsinghua University (P.R.C.), Professor of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Foreign Languages. Undergraduate EFL courses: English reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
1995 Committee Member (Video-Based Teaching), Tsinghua University, Beijing.
1994-1998

Tsinghua University (P.R.C.), Research Assistant, English-Chinese Machine Translation Research Group. Constructed databases of rules and dictionaries for the English-Chinese Machine Translation System.

1992-1994 Tsinghua University (P.R.C.), Graduate Teaching Assistant, Foreign Languages. Undergraduate EFL courses: English reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
 

Professional Development


2005 Assessment Conference 2005: Building and Sustaining a Commitment to Assessment. Charleston, West Virginia.
2004 Assessment Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.
 

Publications/Presentations


2008 Sweetland, Y.L. A Comparative Study of Online and On Campus Students' Written Communications Skills, Mid-Western Educational Research Association (MWERA), Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH.
2005 Hirvela, A. & Sweetland, Y.L. (2005). Two case studies of L2 writers' experiences across learning-directed portfolio contexts. Assessing Writing,10 (3),192-213.
2004 Liu, Y. (2004, April). Encountering portfolios in college composition courses: A case study of ESL students. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
2003 Liu, Y. (2003, October). A case study of ESL students' experiences with college writing portfolios. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Western Educational Research Association, Columbus, OH.
2003 Liu, Y. (2003). A case study of ESL students' experiences with writing portfolios in college composition courses. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. The Ohio State University.
1999 Samimy, K., Liu, Y., et al. (1999, November). A critical review of communicative language teaching in EFL contexts: Case study of four Asian countries. Presentation made at the Ohio TESOL Conference, Columbus, OH.
1995

Liu, Y. (1995, June). Ambiguities in English-Chinese machine translation. Paper presented at the 22nd International Systemic-Functional Grammar Conference, Beijing, China.