JD Brown
Professor
Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles
556 Moore Hall
808.956.2783
brownj@hawaii.edu
https://sites.google.com/site/jdbrownshome/home
JD has spoken and taught courses in more than thirty countries ranging from Brazil to Yugoslavia. He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters (on language testing, curriculum design, research methods, and program evaluation) and authored or co-authored numerous books (on reading statistical language studies, language curriculum, language testing, language testing in Japan, testing L2 pragmatics, performance testing, criterion-referenced language testing, using surveys in language programs, doing research, language test development, ideas for classroom assessment, connected speech, and heritage language curriculum).
Areas of Expertise:
- Language Testing
- Language Curriculum Development
- Language Program Evaluation
- Generalizability Theory
- Rasch Analysis
- Connected speech


