Sompong Witayasakpan’s research while affiliated with Chiang Mai University and other places

The online assessment is a new examination system which has a broad application in many fields such as education, as such tests offer real-time scoring, ease of administration, more accuracy, reduce test expenses, and flexible test scheduling. This study was to develop a web-based online examination system based on a Brower/Server framework for assessing the academic competency of the students in grade 1-3. Above-level testing is the procedure to test the gifted student who is younger or in a lower grade than the group for which the test was originally designed. The test is used as a screening process to help teachers make decision whether their programs and services are at the appropriate level of challenge to inspire their advanced learners. The test comprises of 4 academic areas; Mathematics, Thai, English, and Science. After the test, teachers will receive information that shows the score of their students compared to that of students in the higher grades.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1990 This study is an investigation of compounding in English in the Government-Binding framework. It advances the claim that word-formation, e.g. compounding and affixation, takes place in the syntax. The well-formedness and the ill-formedness of words can be accounted for by syntactic principles. In addition, no interpretive rules for compounds are invoked. The typical interpretation of most compounds can be captured by lexical properties and principles of grammar. The rest must be listed.It is proposed that compounds, like phrases, are projected from the lexicon. Thus, compounds and phrases may share the same D-structure, therefore accounting for their similarities. Their superficial differences are the result of the application of different grammatical principles to the same underlying structure.The study shows that verbal, nominal, and adjectival compounds are derived by head-to-head movement rule, which is subsumed under the rule of Move Alpha. This rule moves the head of the complement and adjoins it to the head that governs it, a movement that is licensed by the Empty Category Principle (ECP), among other grammatical principles. It is furthermore argued that affixes have their own idiosyncratic properties, and that they are selected by the lexical head of the phrase. In effect, affixation applies at any level of representation in the syntax as long as it does not violate any principles of grammar. Affixation may apply before or after compounding, depending on the requirements of lexical items and the thematic relations of the head and its complement, which are established at D-structure.It is also argued that the generation of compounds is the same as that of phrases in that the process is productive and compositional. Therefore, no interpretive rules are required.