Staff Profiles
Mr Luc Le
Research Fellow
BSc, MEd. RMIT
Mr Luc Le is a Research Fellow in the National and International Surveys research program at the Australian Council for Educational Research.
Mr Le has been working in data analysis and item development for the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the survey of Reading, Mathematics and Science of 15-year-olds in about 60 countries that has been being managed by ACER since 2000. He has simultaneously worked on many other main projects in ACER such as Graduate Skills Assessment (GSA/BMAT), Graduate Australian Medical Admission Test Administration (GAMSAT), Undergrad. Medicine and Health Sci. Admiss. Test (UMAT), Medical School Admissions Test for UK (MSAT); International Student Admission Test (ISAT), Science Education Assessment Resources (SEAR), Vic. General Achievement Test (GAT).
Prior to joining ACER in October 2000, he worked for 12 years as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Hue University, Vietnam. He was the author or joint author of many papers in Optimization and in Educational Measurement.
Mr Le has a strong background in mathematics and psychometrics. Mr Le completed a Masters degree in Educational Measurement (Item Response Theory) in 1998 at RMIT. He completed his PhD dissertation in applied mathematics at Hanoi Institute of Mathematics in 2000. He is currently doing his PhD in Educational Measurement at the University of Melbourne.