Professor Jihyun Lee | UNSW Research

My Expertise

NAPLAN, PISA, Large-Scale Assessment, Teacher-Based Assessment, Assessment of 21st Century Skills

Keywords

assessments

Biography

Jihyun Lee is Professor of Educational Assessment and Measurement in the School of Education.

Her academic training and experiences include:

Thomas J. Alexander (TJA) research fellow at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France (2018-2019)
Postdoctoral fellow at Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, New Jersey, USA (2004-2006)
Ph.D. in Educational Measurement and Applied Statistics from the...view more

Jihyun Lee is Professor of Educational Assessment and Measurement in the School of Education.

Her academic training and experiences include:

Thomas J. Alexander (TJA) research fellow at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France (2018-2019)
Postdoctoral fellow at Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, New Jersey, USA (2004-2006)
Ph.D. in Educational Measurement and Applied Statistics from the Columbian University in New York, USA (2003)
Master of Education in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA (1996)

Her work experiences include:

Program Administrator at ETS, USA: Work involving the development of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Assistant Professor at National Institute of Education (NIE) Singapore, in Department of Psychological Studies
Visiting scholar at The IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) Data Processing and Research Center (DPC) in Hamburg, Germany (September – October, 2017); at the Collingwood College, Durham University, United Kingdom (September, 2017), and at the School of Education in the Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea (May – December 2017).

Her main research areas are:

Large-scale international assessment (PISA, TIMSS)
Large-scale national assessment (NAPLAN)
Survey design & Scale validation
Psychological constructs: Confidence, Self-efficacy, Interest
21st Century Skills
Australia's General Capabilities

My Grants

2017 – 2018 The Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF) Grant (Received the grant as Chief Investigator, with J. Jung as a co-investigator) Awarded AU$14,470. Project title: Collaboration on gifted STEAM programs in Australia and Korea. 2017 – 2018 The Australian Mensa Grant. Awarded AU$5,000. Project title: The development of exceptional intellectual ability in mathematics: Perspectives from Australian Mathematical Olympiad Program participants.
2014 – 2017 National Research Foundation of Korea (SSK, Social Science Korea: NRF-2011-330-B00168, NRF-2012S1A3A2033877): ($740,000.00) (External Chief Investigator) Project title: Towards Inclusive School Climate of Korean Primary and Secondary Schools.
2016 University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Awarded AU$4,966. (Received the grant as Investigator) Project title: Predictors of Intentions for an Extended Post-Study Sojourn in Australia among International Students.
2016 University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Awarded AU$4,950. (Received the grant as Investigator) Project title: Exploring a new construct, Metainterest.
2015 University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Awarded AU$4,985. (Received the grant as Chief Investigator) Project title: Taxonomy of Typical Intellectual Engagement (TIE) and Academic Interest (AI) among Australian Youth.
2014 University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Awarded AU$4,992. (Received the grant as Chief Investigator) Project title: Investigation of Typical Intellectual Engagement (TIE) among Australian Undergraduate Students.
2012 – 2015 May, Singapore National Institute of Education, Office of Education Research, Awarded S$245,075 (Received the grant as Principle Investigator, Competitive grant, currently working as External Collaborator) Project: Development of Confidence.
2013 June, Singapore National Institute of Education, Office of Education Research, Awarded S$7,872 (External Collaborator, Competitive grant) Project: Designing an instrument for assessment of values and dispositions in primary education.
2012 – 2013 Feb, Singapore National Institute of Education, Office of Education Research, Awarded S$20,000 (Co-Principle Investigator, Competitive grant) Project: Designing an instrument for assessment of values and dispositions in primary education.
2011– 2013 May, Singapore National Institute of Education, Office of Education Research, Awarded S$99,950 (Principle Investigator, Competitive grant). Project: Students’ academic and non-academic outcomes: International perspectives from PISA 2009 (OER 14/10 JYL).

My Qualifications

PHD (Columbia), MEd (Harvard), BSci (Yonsei),

My Awards

2018 Thomas J. Alexander Research Fellowship at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2018 UNSW Dean's Award for Scholarly Research Impact from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
2016 UNSW Supervisor Awards by the Postgraduate Council (PGC)
2013 John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Research by WRAB (Writing Research Across Borders) (Lee, 2013, Written Communication, 30, 164-193)
2013 Nominated for APA (American Psychological Association) Division 1’s George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology (Lee & Shute, 2010)
2013 Nominated by NCTE (American National Council of Teachers of English) for College Composition and Communication Award for Impact (Lee, 2013)
2012 Nominated for APA (American Psychological Association) Division 1’s George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology (Lee & Shute, 2010)
2005 AERA Statistics Institute Grant Award
2005 ETS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
2004 ETS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
2000 Helen Walker Scholarship Award from Columbia University
1992 Yonsei University Honor’s Award, Department of Child and Family Studies

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

assessments

Areas of supervision

Assessment & Educational Psychology

Data Literacy and Assessment Literacy for teacher instruction and school performance & improvement
Psychological theories and assessment relating to student achievement and confidence, self-efficacy, interest
Australia's General Capabilities https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/languages/general-capabilities/
Large-scale international assessment (PISA) https://www.oecd.org/pisa/
Large-scale national assessment (NAPLAN) https://nap.edu.au/naplan
Survey design & Scale validation
21st Century Skills https://www.oecd.org/general/thecasefor21st-centurylearning.htm

Currently supervising

Assessment

Australia's General Capabilities
21st Century Skills

Educational Psychology

Relationships between action and knowledge
Relationships between emotion and cognitive load
Relationships between interest, confidence, aspiration, achievement

My Engagement

Research reports

Lee, J. (2010). Conducting cognitive laboratory interviews for PISA 2012 Questionnaires. QEG(0910)5b.doc, QEG meeting, Hong Kong, 25-27 February 2010.

Vieluf, S., Lee, J. & Kyllonen, P. (2009a). The predictive power of variables from the PISA2003 student questionnaire. QEG(0910)5a.doc, QEG meeting, Offenbach, Germany, 19-21 October 2009.

Vieluf, S., Lee, J. & Kyllonen, P. (2009b). The cross-cultural validity of variables from the PISA2003 student questionnaire. QEG(0910)5b.doc, QEG meeting, Offenbach, Germany, 19-21 October 2009.

Lee, J., & Shute, V. (2009). The influence of noncognitive domains on academic achievement in K-12 (ETS Research Rep. No. RR-09-34). Princeton, NJ: ETS.

Lee, J. (2009). Self-constructs and anxiety across cultures (ETS Research Rep. No. RR-09-12). Princeton, NJ: ETS.

Paek, I., Lee, J., Stankov, L., & Wilson, M. (2008). A Study of Confidence and Accuracy Using the Rasch Modeling Procedures (ETS Research RR-08-42). Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

Stankov, L., & Lee, J. (2007). Confidence and cognitive test performance. Research Report (ETS Research Report RR-07-03). Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

Tsikalas, K., Lee, J., & Newkirk, C. (2007). Home Computing, School Engagement and Academic Achievement of Low-Income Adolescents: Findings from Year One of a Three Year Study of the CFY intervention. New York, NY: Computers for Youth Foundation, Inc.

U.S. Government Publications (PEER-REVIEWED)

Lee, J., Grigg, W., & Dion, G. (2007). The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2007 (NCES 2007-494). U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Lee, J., Grigg, W., & Patricia, D. (2007). The Nation's Report Card: Reading 2007 (NCES 2007-496). U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Lee, J., & Weiss, A. (2007). The Nation's Report Card: U.S. History 2006 (NCES 2007-474). U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Invited Talks

Lee, J. (2017, December). Questionnaire design and research based on questionnaire data. Talk presented at the School of Education, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea

Lee, J. (2017, December). Teacher-student relationships in South Korea, based on the PISA 2012 data. Presented as a keynote speaker at the Opening Ceremony of Social Science Korea Warm Educational Community Research Center and the 2017 International Conference of Warm Educational Community Research, at the Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea

Lee, J. (2017, November). Gifted students in PISA 2012 mathematics. Talk presented at the Global Institute for Talented Education (GIFTED) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

Lee, J. (2017, October). Large-scale international student assessment and cross-cultural psychology. Paper presented at the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in Hamburg, Germany

Lee, J. (2017, October). Questionnaire design and research based on questionnaire data. Talk presented at the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in Hamburg, Germany

Lee, J. (2017, September). My current research projects. Paper presented at the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in Hamburg, Germany

Lee, J., & Stankov, L. (2016, September). Non-cognitive predictors of student achievement from PISA & TIMSS. Presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Stankov, L., & Lee, J. (2016, June). Non-cognitive predictors of math achievement in PISA & TIMSS and cross-cultural findings with anchoring vignettes and overconfidence. Presented at the Institute for Positive Psychology & Education (IPPE), Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia.

Lee, J. (2015, Oct). Measuring non-cognitive constructs in the School Contexts. The 2015 Annual Conference of the UNSW Global - Educational Assessment Australia (EAA), Sydney, Australia.

Lee, J. (2015, September). A brief overview of my research. Presented at the Graduate Research Seminar, Korea University, in Seoul South Korea.

Lee, J. (2015, August). An international perspective on positive school climate. Presented at the School Reform Forum in Pusan, South Korea.

Lee, J. (2013, Oct). Noncognitive Development and Assessment. Presented at the Korean Association of Child Studies, Seoul, South Korea.

Lee, J. (2012, Oct). Development of a Holistic Assessment Tool for Primary School Students in Singapore. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Education Services Division (ESD) of the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore.

Lee, J. (2012, August). Student Factors of High Acadmic Performance across Asian and Non-Asian countries. Presented at the Centre for International Comparative Studies (CICS) at National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore.

Lee, J. (2012, July). PISA 2009 from Asian Countries’ Perspectives. Presented at the Peer Forum of Psychological Studies Academic Group at National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore.

Conference presentations

Alamer, A., Lee, J., & Vigentini, L. (2017). The relationship of motivation and emotion with second language learning. Presented at the Applied Linguistics Conference (ALANZ/ALAA/ALTAANZ), Auckland, New Zealand.

Lee, J. (2017, July). A gradient of non-cognitive predictors of academic achievement in the large-scale international assessments. Paper presented at The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Warsaw, Poland.

Lee, J. (2017, July). In Search of Optimal SES Measures in Predicting Academic Achievement. Paper presented at The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Warsaw, Poland.

Lee, J. (2016, Nov). Non-cognitive predictors of student achievement. Presented at the Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID) in Melbourne, Australia.

Stankov, L., & Lee, J. (2016, July). Non-cognitive factors in mathematics achievement: Evidence from PISA and TIMSS. Presented at the 17th Annual Conference of International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Lee, J. (2015, Nov). Gradients of non-cognitive predictors from PISA and TIMSS. Presented at the Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID) in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

Lee, J. (2015, Nov). Academic interest of undergraduate students. Presented at the Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID) in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

Lee, J. (2015, Oct). The current status of non-cognitive assessment in schools. Presented at the 2015 Assessment in Schools Conference in Sydney, Australia.

Putro, N. H. P. S., & Lee, J. (2015 September). Dimensions of reading interest of undergraduate students. Presented at the 62^nd TEFLIN (Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia) International Conference in Unud, Indonesia.

Lee, J. (2015, June). Attitudes towards peer-assessment of university students. Presented at the Society of Sustainability Science (SOSS) Conference in Seoul, South Korea.

Alonzo, D., Lee, J., & Davison, C. (2015, April). A teacher assessment for learning (AfL) competency framework: Development and application. American Educational Research Association. Chicago, USA.

Lee, J. (2014, Nov). Measurement issues and some potential solutions in large-scale assessment. Presented at the Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID) in Newcastle, Australia.

Stankov, L. & Lee, J. (2014, Nov). Overconfidence around the world. Presented at the Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID) in Newcastle, Australia.

Lee, J. (2013, Dec). Confidence: A better predictor of academic achievement than self-efficacy, self-concept and anxiety? Presented at International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) in Melbourne, Australia.

Lee, J. (2013, Oct). Noncognitive development and assessment. Presented at the Korean Association of Child Studies, Seoul Korea.

Lee, J. (2013, July). Behind the academic motivation of East Asian students. Paper presented at The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Barcelona, Spain.

Lee, J. (2013, July). No secrets to academic success. Paper presented at The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Barcelona, Spain.

Stankov, L., & Lee, J. (2013, July). Overconfidence across world regions (with L. Stankov). Paper presented at The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Barcelona, Spain.

Stankov, L., & Lee, J. (2013, July). Two dimensions of psychological country-level differences: Conservatism/Liberalism and Harshness/Softness (with L. Stankov). Paper presented at The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Barcelona, Spain.

Lee, J. (2012, Oct). Development of a Holistic Assessment Tool for Primary School Students in Singapore. Presented at the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE), for the 2012 Education Services Division (ESD) Research Seminar, Singapore.

Lee, J. (2012, August). Student Factors of High Acadmic Performance across Asian and Non-Asian countries. Presented at the Centre for International Comparative Studies (CICS) at National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore.

Lee, J. (2012, July). Conducting cognitive interviews in cross-national settings. Paper presented at The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Lee, J., Paek, I., & Stankov, L. (2011, April). In Search of the Optimal Number of Response Categories Using IRT Graded Response Modeling. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Lee, J. (2010). Career interest clusters of high-school students. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO.

Lee, J. (2010). Conducting cognitive laboratory interviews for PISA 2012 Questionnaires. Paper presented at the QEG meeting. Hong Kong, China.

Lee, J. (2009, April). Demographic Information, Reading Engagement, and Reading Achievement from NAEP Data of 2002 and 2007. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Lee, J. (2009, April). National Trends in Student Reading and Writing Engagement Using NAEP 2002 to 2007. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Stankov, L., Lee, J., & Paek, I. (2009, April). Realism of confidence judgment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Lee, J. (2009, Jan). NAEP background questionnaire item development for the 2011 writing assessment. Presented at the NAEP Background Questionnaire Standing Committee Meeting, Washington DC.

Lee, J. (2008, Aug). Trend in students’ noncognitive traits. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. Boston, MA.

Lee. J. (2008, July). Factorial structure of self-constructs: Evidence from PISA2003. International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Bremen, Germany.

Lee, J. (2008, June). NAEP background questionnaire development for civics. Presented at the NAEP Civics Committee Meeting, Washington DC.

Lee, J. (2008, May). The new ETS project: NAEP background questionnaire development. Presented at the ETS Area Meeting, Princeton, NJ.

Lee, J. (2008, April). NAEP background questionnaire item writing style guide. Presented at the NAEP Background Questionnaire Standing Committee Meeting, Washington DC.

Lee, J. (2008, March). Noncognitive factors and academic performance: NAEP, PISA, ECLS-K. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Tsikalas, K, & Lee, J. (2008, March). Home computing, school engagement, and academic achievement of low-income adolescents: Findings from the CFY intervention. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Lee, J. (2007, Aug). Noncognitive traits in academic performance above and beyond background characteristics. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. San Francisco, CA.

Tsikalas, K., Lee, J., & Newkirk, C. (2007, June). Home computing intervention: Student engagement and academic achievement. Paper presented at the Conference of Chief State School Officers. Nashville, TN.

Lee, J. (2007, May). NAEP evidence for importance of noncognitive variables for academic performance. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Washington D.C.

Stankov, L., & Lee, J. (2007, May). Two dimensions of country-level differences: Economic development and egalitarian commitment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Washington D.C.

Stankov, L., & Lee, J. (2007, May). Confidence and cognitive test performance. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Conferences of the European Association for Psychological Assessment. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Lee, J., Goodman, M., Bauer, M., Redman, M. (2007, April). Enhance: Noncognitive assessments for K–12. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL.

Paek, I., Lee, J., & Stankov, L. (2007, April). An Application of Rasch modeling on test-taker confidence and accuracy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Stankov, L., Lee, J., & Paek, I. (2007, Feb). Realism of confidence judgments. Presented at Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

Lee, J. (2006). The relationship between cognitive performance and noncognitive factors from three large-scale assessments: NAEP, PISA and ECLS-K. Presented at Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

Lee, J. (2006). Are self-concept, self-efficacy, and anxiety universal constructs? Evidence from PISA 2003. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Lee, J. (2006). Noncognitive variables and mathematics performance among U.S. students from PISA 2003. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Lee, J. (2005). PISA 2003 versus 2000: How have 15-year olds’ noncognitive measures changed. Paper presented at the 8th European Conference of Psychological Assessment (ECPA 8), Budapest, Hungary.

Lee, J. (2005). Noncognitive assessment in PISA 2003. Presented at Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

Lee, J., & Corter, J. E. (2005). The role of defined sub-skills in detecting subtraction bugs in tests of varying formats. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal, Canada.

Lee, J., & Corter, J.E. (2003). Diagnosis of subtraction bugs using Bayesian networks. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Classification Society of North America, Tallahassee, FL.

Matsuka, T., Lee, J., Sng, C., Corter, J.E., & Tatsuoka, K. (2003). Computer access and TIMSS-R mathematics achievement: International comparisons. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL.