Atta Gebril

Atta Gebril is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics, the American University in Cairo. He obtained his PhD in Foreign Language and ESL Education with a minor in language testing from the University of Iowa. His dissertation work focused on score generalizability of academic writing tasks. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, and Assessing Writing. His work has appeared in top-tier journals including Language Assessment Quarterly, Language Testing, Assessing Writing, Second Language Writing, Assessment in Education, English for Academic Purposes, and Teacher Development. His book entitled Assessment myths, coauthored with Lia Plakans, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2015.