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JOHN H.A.L. DE JONG is Senior Vice President Standards and Quality with Pearson English and Professor of Language Testing at VU University Amsterdam. He has over 30 years experience in language testing. John graduated in General Linguistics, French and English languages from Leiden University and obtained a Ph.D. in Educational Measurement from Twente University. He has published widely on language assessment and educational measurement and has specialised in empirical scaling and the development of internationally standardised reporting scales of language proficiency. Before starting his career in language testing John had been teaching French for seven years in secondary schools. He joined Pearson in September 2006 where apart from directing language testing programmes he is also Programme Director for developing the Frameworks for PISA 2015.

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