She has a PhD in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State University. Dr Coombe has published numerous professional volumes in the areas of assessment, teacher evaluation, leadership and management and task-based teaching and learning. Her most recent volume is The Cambridge Guide to Research in Language Teaching and Learning (CUP, 2015) and the Assessment and Evaluation Volume 8 of the TESOL/Wiley Encyclopedia in ELT (Wiley, 2018). Most recently she served as President of the TESOL International Association (2010-2013). Dr Coombe is the recipient of the 2018 James E. Alatis Award for exemplary service to TESOL.