Ray Adams

Dr Ray Adams specializes in psychometrics, educational statistics, large-scale testing and international comparative studies. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Assessment Research Centre of the University of Melbourne and he is head of the ACER Centre for Global Education Monitoring. He was the International Project Director for the OECD Program for International Student Achievement (PISA) from its inception until 2014 and led its design. PISA is perhaps the world’s largest and most significant educational research project. His personal research program is on the extension of fundamental measurement models (Rasch item response models) to deal with performance assessments and on the application of item response methods to international surveys of educational outcomes.