Keynote Speakers
Kadriye Ercikan
ITC President
Kadriye Ercikan is responsible for ETS’s foundational and applied research and ETS’s contract for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, PISA, PIAAC and PARAKH contracts. Her research focuses on validity and fairness issues and sociocultural context of assessment. Her recent research includes validity and fairness issues in innovative digital assessments including using response process data, AI applications, and adaptivity.
Ercikan is a Fellow of the International Academy of Education, President Elect of the International Academy of Education, and President Elect of the International Test Commission. Her research has resulted in six books, four special issues of refereed journals and over 100 publications. She was awarded the AERA Division D Significant Contributions to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology recognition for another co-edited volume, Generalizing from Educational Research: Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Polarization, and received an Early Career Award from the University of British Columbia. Ercikan is currently serving as the NCME Book Series Editor (2021-2026).
Professor Dragan Gasevic
Monash University
Dragan Gašević is Distinguished Professor of Learning Analytics in the Faculty of Information Technology and the Director of the Centre for Learning Analytics (CoLAM) at Monash University. His research interests center around data analytic, AI, and design methods that can advance understanding of self-regulated and collaborative learning. Previously, he was a Professor and the Sir Tim O’Shea Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics (Feb 2015–Feb 2018) in the Moray House School of Education and the School of Informatics and Co-Director of Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. He was the Canada Research Chair in Semantic and Learning Technologies and Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University (Jan 2007–Jan 2015). He is a founder and served as the President (2015–2017) of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), the world’s leading research and professional organization in learning analytics. He has held several honorary professorships and industry fellowships in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. He served as a founding program chair of the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) in 2011 and 2012, the general chair in 2016, a founding program co-chair of the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) in 2013 and 2014, and a founding editor of the Journal of Learning Analytics (2012–2017) and Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (2020–present). In 2019–2023, he was recognized as the national field leader in educational technology in The Australian – the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally. He led the EU-funded SHEILA project that received the Best Research Project of the Year Award (2019) from the Association for Learning Technology. In 2022, he received the Lifetime Member Award, the highest distinction of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest computing society.
Professor Elizabeth McKinlay
Melbourne University
Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity trains a new generation of leaders committed to tackling social disadvantage in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Led by the University of Melbourne, the program is driven by a game-changing US$50 million grant from US-based Atlantic Philanthropies.
Dr. Hua-Hua Chang
Purdue University
Dr. Hua-Hua Chang, Charles R. Hicks Chair Professor of Education at Purdue University, is a leading expert in Educational Measurement. His groundbreaking research spans both theoretical and applied domains, including Computerized Adaptive Testing, Cognitive Diagnosis, and Differential Item Functioning. Dr. Chang is also at the forefront of developing innovative web-based assessment tools to enhance personalized learning.
He has served as President of the Psychometric Society and is a fellow of both the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). His distinguished career has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the 2017 E. F. Lindquist Award (AERA and ACT), the 2021 NCME Career Contribution Award, and the 2024 Samuel J. Messick Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (APA Division 5). Dr. Chang also served two times as Fulbright Specialist, Australia (2005) and Colombia (2019).
Dr. Madeline Xi
Hong Kong Examination and Assessment Authority
Dr Xi Xiaoming Madeline is the Director – Examinations, Assessment and Research. She leads the Assessment Technology and Research Division, the International and Professional Examinations Division and the Education Assessment Services Division, and is in charge of formulating strategies and policies governing research initiatives, promoting assessment for learning, conducting analytics in support of the standards of the HKDSE, operating and improving the TSA project and exploring research/business partnership and collaboration opportunities with external parties.
Dr Xi is an internationally recognised expert in assessment, the interface between learning and assessment, and educational technologies including AI technologies with expertise in educational product R&D, strategy, implementation and growth. She has substantial research experience and published widely on testing, assessment, learning, and educational AI technologies.
Prior to joining the HKEAA in April 2022, she had a long tenure with ETS where she was the Senior Research Director of the Centre for Language Learning and Assessment and subsequently the Executive Director, New Product Development when she left in 2020. She had then taken up the role of Chief of Product, Assessment and Learning in VIPKID. Dr Xi obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Measurement and Statistics and Language Assessment from the University of California, Los Angeles and Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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KEY DATES
Call for pre-conference short-course proposals:
Monday, 16 June 2025
Call for symposium and individual abstracts:
Friday, 15 August 2025
Registration open:
Monday, 2 February 2026
Conference dates:
Tuesday, 30 June - Friday, 03 July 2026
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