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College of Humanities
Center for Language Studies

Matthew Wilcox

Matthew Wilcox headshot
Matthew Wilcox headshot

Research Interests


Development and validation of assessments and related statistical methods and processes.

Publications

Scholarly Works 

Sims, M. E., Cox, T. L., Eckstein, G. T., Hartshorn, K. J., Wilcox, M. P., & Hart, J. M. (2020). Rubric Rating with MFRM versus Randomly Distributed Comparative Judgment: A Comparison of Two Approaches to Second‐Language Writing Assessment. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice.

Wilcox, M. (2010). The Published Writings of the Young Elder Gordon B. Hinckley. BYU Religious Education 2010 Student Symposium.

Wilcox, M. (2009). The Coming Forth of the Book of Abraham. BYU Religious Education 2009 Student Symposium, 105–121.

Scholarly Works in Progress

Martinsen, R., Thompson, G., & Wilcox, M. (in progress). ACTFL Proficiency Placement Test: A Use Validation Examination of the Spanish Listening APPT.

Wilcox, M. (in progress). Evidence for the Validity of the Student Risk Screening Scale in Middle School: A Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Magazine articles 

Wilcox, M. (2016b, February). Why Institute Graduation Matters. Ensign. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2016/02/young-adults/why-institute-graduation-matters?lang=eng

Professional Reports

Wilcox, M. (2019). NATO Benchmark Advisory Test, Version 2 (BAT2) [Technical Report]. Center for Language Studies, Brigham Young University.

Wilcox, M. (2020a). ACTFL Proficiency Placement Test Technical Report and Familiarization Manual [Technical Report]. Center for Language Studies, Brigham Young University.

Wilcox, M. (2020b). Brigham Young University Adaptive Listening (ALT) and Adaptive Reading Test (ART) [Technical Report]. Center for Language Studies, Brigham Young University.

Professional Reports in Progress 

Wu, K., Wilcox, M., & Cox, T. (in progress). Language Proficiency Diagnostic Assessment [Technical Report]. Center for Language Studies, Brigham Young University.

Professional Papers and Presentations

Dickison, P., Graham, B., & Wilcox, M. (2019, March 19). Fundamentals of Secure Testing: Goals, Policies, Training, and Quality Control. Paper at the presented at Challenge, Transform, Evolve. Innovations in Testing 2019, San Antonio.

Hart, J., Cox, T., & Wilcox, M. (2019, March 7). Development and Use of an Automatic Scoring Model for Spoken Response Tests. Paper at the presented at Language Testing and Social Justice. 41st Language Testing Research Colloqium, Atlanta.

Martin, K., & Wilcox, M. (2019, March 6). Automated Essay Scoring: An objective support to human raters. Paper at the presented at Language Testing and Social Justice. 41st Language Testing Research Colloquium, Atlanta.

Ma, R., Wilcox, M., Carlson, S., & Preciado, J. (2018, November 17). Cognitive Diagnostic Tests: A New Approach to Diagnostic Assessment. Paper at the presented at the ACTFL 2018 Annual Conference, New Orleans.

Saunders, A. M., & Wilcox, M. P. (2018, November 16). A Taxonomy-based approach to assessing novice level adult L2 learners. Paper at the presented at the ACTFL 2018 Annual Conference, New Orleans.

VanWagoner, K., Krauel, M., Chase, B., Cox, T., & Hart, J. (2017, July 19) An Investigation into the Lexical Grammatical Item Type. Paper at the presented at Language Assessment Across Stakeholder Boundaries. 39th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Bogota, Colombia.

Wilcox, M. (2014, March 6). The Production of Proselyting Filmstrips. Paper at the presented at The International Church: Mormonism as a Global Religion. BYU Church History Symposium, Provo, UT.

Wilcox, M. (2013, October 26). Worship Through Sacrifice in Leviticus 1-7: Animals, the Atonement, and Us. Paper at the presented at Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament. 42nd Annual Sperry Symposium.