BOSTES has appointed a postdoctoral fellow as part of its partnership with the University of Cambridge to develop the online literacy and numeracy test for school leavers.

This appointment is in addition to other research at BOSTES and with other partners, into learning, assessment, testing, and the statistical analysis of test data.

Dr Igor Menezes, the inaugural BOSTES Sponsored University of Cambridge Postdoctoral Fellow, is Coordinator of The Quantitative Methods and Predictive Psychometrics Laboratory, at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

His expertise is in psychometrics and statistics, particularly in multidimensional item response theory, multi-level modelling and health/quality of life assessment. He is highly experienced in research, teaching psychometrics and student supervision.

BOSTES looks forward to sharing developments in testing and data analysis with schools and teachers to further support student learning and assessment.

For more information, contact:
Dr Andrew Kyngdon
Chief Psychometrician
Manager, Psychometrics & Analytics
andrew.kyngdon@bostes.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8235