Staff Profiles
Dr Wolfram Schulz
Dipl.-Pol. FU Berlin, Dr. rer. pol.Rostock
Dr Wolfram Schulz is a Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research in the National and International Surveys research program.
Since 2001, he has been working on the OECD PISA study, which undertakes assessments of Mathematics, Reading and Science of 15-year-olds in more than 50 countries. He is responsible for the implementation of context questionnaires and coordination of data analysis.
Dr Schulz is familiar with a wide range of statistical software like SPSS, SAS, MPLUS, LISREL, HLM and MLwiN and has experience in sampling procedures, the use of replication techniques and IRT scaling methodology. As senior psychometrician at ACER, Dr Schulz gives advice on sampling, scaling and statistical analysis to external clients and project staff working on different ACER projects. He also supervises data analytic work for a number of large-scale assessments.
Dr. Schulz is Research Director of the International Study Centre of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), which will assess learning outcomes of civic and citizenship education in probably more than 30 countries in 2008/2009.
Prior to joining ACER, Dr Schulz worked for three years as Associate International Co-ordinator of the IEA Civic Education Study at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Educational Sciences and is co-author of its 2001 International Report, Citizenship and Education in Twenty-eight Countries: The Civic Knowledge and Engagement at Age Fourteen, as well as co-editor of the its 2004 technical report.
He has a university degree in Political Science and is Doctor of Economic and Social Sciences (Universität Rostock). He joined ACER in 2001.