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Atta Gebril is a professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics . Atta obtained his PhD in Foreign Language and Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) Education with a minor in language testing from the University of Iowa (USA). He previously worked for American College Testing (ACT, Inc.), where he was part of the Workkeys team. In addition, he has been working as an assessment and evaluation consultant and currently serves on the TOEFL Committee of Examiners (COE). His research interests include integrated writing assessment, assessment literacy, second language writing, and teacher education. He serves on the editorial boards of Language Assessment Quarterly, Assessing Writing, and TESOL Journal. In January 2018, he joined the Language Assessment Quarterly editorial team as an associate editor. His book entitled “Assessment Myths,” co-authored with Lia Plakans was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2015. His book “Learning-Oriented Language Assessment” was published by Routledge in 2021. Atta’s work has appeared in top-tier journals, including Language Assessment Quarterly, Language Testing, Assessing Writing, Second Language Writing, Assessment in Education, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and Teacher Development. In 2018, he won the ‘Best Article in the Field of Language Testing’ award from the International Language Testing Association (ILTA). He also received a national Scopus Award, representing the highest-impact scholarship in the field of education in Egypt from Elsevier and Egyptian Knowledge Bank in 2019.