Sara Cushing Weigle, Associate Professor, came to Georgia State University in 1997. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA in 1994. She has conducted research in the areas of assessment, second language writing, and teacher education, and is the author of Assessing Writing (2002, Cambridge University Press). She has taught EFL in Vienna, Austria, and Budapest, Hungary, and recently received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to teach Research Methods in Cordoba and Rio Cuarto, Argentina. Her work has been published in Language Testing, the Journal of Second Language Writing, Assessing Writing, and TESOL Quarterly. She is actively involved in several professional organizations and is Book Review Editor for Language Testing. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of ESL Testing Research and Development in the Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL.