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Ms Dara Ramalingam

Position:

Senior Research Fellow 

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Division:

Assessment and Reporting: Humanities and Social Sciences 

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Location:

Melbourne 

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Qualifications:

BA, BSc(Hons) Melb

 

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Dara Ramalingam is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research. She is part of a test development team that specialises in constructing, describing and validating developmental continua, particularly in the area of language and literacy. She is currently the manager of instrument development for the computer-based assessment of problem solving for the OECD’s Programme for International Assessment (PISA). She played a leading role in test development for the PISA 2009 Reading Assessments (both digital and paper-based) and the OECD Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies computer-based assessment of literacy. In addition to her international work Dara has extensive test development experience for National (e.g. NAPLAN) and state-based assessment work in Australia (e.g. the West Australian Literacy and Numeracy Assessment).

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