Public policy analyst and founder CEO of Institute of Informatics and Development (IID)
Director of the Educational Quality and Assessment Programme of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
PROFESSOR OF THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND DIRECTOR OF HONG KONG CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT, CUHK
Director – Examinations, Assessment and Research of Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA)
Professor and Head of the National Achievement Survey Cell at National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi
Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research, Coordinator of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Centre
Head, Directorate-General of Quality Assurance of the State Inspectorate for Supervision of Quality in Education, Cabinet of Ministries, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
At IID’s education unit, his research work includes learning-ecosystem, learning-assessment, learning-employability and learning the future. Long served at various national and international organizations, including at the University of Melbourne, the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament House and the Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh.
Syeed has been the Bangladesh focal person for UNESCO’s Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP, Bangkok) and the People’s Action for Learning Network (PAL Network, Nairobi). A member of the Advisory Group for Dhaka Tribune’s ranking of private universities. In 2020, invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an expert to join Bangladesh government’s delegation to Global Forum on Migration and Development. His recent education research includes basic literacy and numeracy in Jhenaidah district for the assessment of SDG 4.1 (Jun-Dec 2019); midline survey of British Council’s English and Digital for Girls’ Education (EDGE) program (Nov 2018- Feb 2019); education policy audit and survey on citizen priorities for National Budget (2017-19); evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s Dream, Save, Do (2018) and primary school initiatives in Bangladesh (2017).
Educational Quality and Assessment Programme (EQAP), formerly the South Pacific Board for Educational Assessment or SPBEA, was established in 1980 with a mandate to assist in regional and national educational assessment needs of its Pacific country members. Over time the emphasis of EQAP work has shifted from a pragmatic need for assessment, to assessment as a supporting and promoting agent for the improvement in the quality of education and in recent years EQAP has become a part of SPC.
Michelle joined EQAP in April 2015, after serving as the Director of Assessment in the Saskatchewan MInistry of Education in Canada. Michelle has been a lecturer in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Regina in the areas of classroom assessment and leadership and assessment. She holds PhD in Education from the University of Regina in Canada, a MAEd in Curriculum and Technology from the University of Phoenix and a BEd in Secondary Mathematics from the University of Regina.
Esther was NPM of HKPISA from 2000+ to 2015 and had been consultant for Macau-PISA2003, China-PISA Trail Study 2006, Shanghai-PISA 2009, a Fulbright scholar at Pennsylvania State University (2004) and John Hopkins University (2010). She was also a Research Associate of the project Education and Development in South China, a teaching consultant of the World Bank in the District Primary Educational Programme, India, and Principal Investigator of Hong Kong HBSC study, Home School Collaboration Project and a Longitudinal Study of Youths in Hong Kong.
Her research interests include: student assessment, parental involvement in children’s education, home school community collaboration, school effectiveness and school reform, decentralization and school-based management, research methodology in education and multilevel analysis in educational research.
Xiaoting has substantial experience in the development and implementation of education quality monitoring assessments. At HKEAA, she leads a team to carry out the Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) project, which assesses Primary 3, Primary 6 and Secondary 3 students in Hong Kong each year. Her research area spans a range of issues from test reliability and validity, item response modelling, to policy issues on the use of assessment data. Before joining HKEAA, she worked as a faculty at Peking University (China). She received her Ph.D. degree in Quantitative Methods and Evaluation from University of California, Berkeley.
She joined NCERT as Associate Professor in June 2002. Her area of specialization is Educational Assessment and Psychometrics, Test Designing and Analysis and Reporting of Large-Scale Achievement Survey and School Based Assessment. She has been working in educational assessment and allied disciplines for 27 years.
Her experience at NCERT includes coordinating the implementation of National Achievement Surveys (NAS) 2021, for Classes III, V, VIII, and X for Ministry of Education, Govt of India, addressing issues and activities pertaining to planning, conduct, management, output, and dissemination of country-wide large-scale studies/surveys for school education. She is associated with active policy level engagements with state governments and other agencies in school education and large-scale assessment surveys under Samagra Siksha.
Ursula coordinates the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Centre, which is a long-term, strategic partnership between ACER and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The GEM Centre works collaboratively with global, regional and national stakeholders in education, to improve learning by ensuring that education policies, practices and investments are influenced by high-quality evidence.
Ursula is the focal point for the GEM Centre’s engagement with the NEQMAP through knowledge sharing, capacity development and research. She also leads the technical cooperation with the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) network which joins citizen-led assessments in fourteen countries in Africa, Asia and North America.
As part of the GEM Centre’s technical partnership with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Ursula manages the Centre’s contribution in developing tools and guidelines to support monitoring of learning outcomes in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education.
Ursula has 20 years’ experience as an educational researcher, specialising in large scale assessments. Prior to joining ACER in 2014, she was the National Project Manager for OECD/PISA in Austria, and has conducted research on PISA, IEA/PIRLS and TIMSS.
He joined the State Inspectorate since its establishment in 2017 until present. His area of specialization is quality assurance, education quality monitoring and assessment (both national and international) in education system.
His experience as the Head of Directorate-General includes the development of external quality assurance procedures and guidelines in continuous education system, coordination of national external and internal quality assurance procedures, development of trainings, seminars and other capacity building activities, consulting strategic development with the Education Ministries on quality assurance and monitoring of quality education in line with international practices, including development of teacher policy and standards, and the development and the coordination of the National Student Assessments as well as International Large-Scale Assessments such as PISAS, PIRLS, and TIMSS.
Suman has extensive experience in the fields of education, gender, and women’s rights. She has worked with government, private, non government and international organizations in several countries, including India, the United States, Pakistan and Mexico. She has taught courses on research design, gender and education and has authored or coauthored numerous articles and books in these areas.
Suman earned an undergraduate degree in Economics with Honors from Delhi University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Education from Harvard University.
Nordin is a lecturer at the School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His major research interests include international large-scale assessment data analysis, quantitative research methodology, measurement and evaluation and applied statistical data analysis. Since 2014, he has served as a consultant for the Ministry of Education Malaysia, contributing to developing PISA and TIMSS-like test items and secondary data analysis using PISA results. He is also a member of the Technical Committee for the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) for Malaysia. Appointed as Senior Research Advisor for Australian Council of Education Research (ACER) Malaysia, he trains teachers on assessment development. Previously, he monitored PISA 2015 and PISA 2018 test administration in Malaysia as a PISA Quality Monitor (PQM) and was the lead consultant for the Student Outcome Measures (SOM) Project.
