Staff Profiles
Ms Juliette Mendelovits
Principal Research Fellow
BA (Hons), DipEd LaTrobe, MA Melb
Ms
Juliette Mendelovits is a Principal Research Fellow at the Australian
Council for Educational Research in the Assessment and Reporting research
program.
Since 1998, Ms Mendelovits has been engaged in work for the reading literacy component of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) project, an international study of curricular and non-curricular performance of 15 year olds in over 30 countries. She played a leading role in the development of the reading literacy instrument for PISA 2000 and is a co-author of Reading for Change: Performance and Engagement Across Countries (OECD, 2002). She is currently coordinating reading literacy framework and test development for PISA 2009.
Her work focuses mainly on literacy and humanities test development. In recent years she has led a team specialising in outcomes-based assessments and directed a number of projects including the Victorian General Achievement Test, the Western Australian Education Department's Monitoring Standards in Education program (English) and a consultancy to the Indonesian National Ministry of Education on curriculum and assessment reform. She initiated and directed the International Schools’ Assessment program (2001-2006).
Ms Mendelovits began her career as an educator in secondary and tertiary
institutions after graduating with a Master of Arts degree in English
literature. She joined ACER in 1991.