Dr Robert MacCann

Dr Robert MacCann was head of Measurement and Research Services at the Board of Studies, New South Wales for fourteen years until 2008. He directed the research programme and operational activities of this research centre in areas such as standards-based reporting, computer-based testing, school assessment and improving the psychometric properties of tests. Prior to that he worked for the Statutory Boards Directorate and the School Certificate Development Unit after a period of teaching at Woolooware High School.

He has published extensively in peer-reviewed international journals in the following fields: test equating, classical test theory, item response theory, standard setting, policy and evaluation, the application of technology to testing and academic performance by gender.

Bob worked at the Centre for five months from February 2009 collaborating on research on models of standards-setting in high stakes assessments and comparing performance standards in international contexts.