Dr. Samira ElAtia is professor of education and the Associate Dean-Research, Graduate Studies and International at the bilingual Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta. She specializes in the evaluation of competencies and language assessment. Her research interest focuses on issues of fairness in assessment, especially in bilingual contexts. She has served on experts' panels of several international testing agencies. She is past president of the Canadian Association of Language Assessment. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA from Illinois State University.

Professor

Associate Dean

Grad Studies (Campus Saint-Jean)

University of Calgary