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'''Irwin Kirsch''' (born ) is the Director of the Center for Global Assessment at Educational |
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Testing Service. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Measurement, Reading/Literacy |
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from the University of Delaware in 1982. He joined ETS in 1984, and has directed a |
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number of large-scale assessments in the area of literacy including the National Adult |
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Literacy Survey, and the NAEP Young Adult Literacy Survey. He was also a key person |
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in establishing the International Adult Literacy Surveys and has directed them for ETS |
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since 1993. In 1987, he received the ETS Research Scientist Award for his work in the |
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area of literacy and was named as an ETS Distinguished Presidential Appointee in 1999. |
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Kirsch currently manages several large-scale surveys including the Adult Education |
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Program Study with the U.S. Department of Education and the Literacy Assessment |
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and Monitoring Program with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Kirsch also chairs |
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the Reading Expert Group for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and |
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Development (OECD), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and |
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has been involved with several efforts aimed at defining and measuring information and |
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communication technology (ICT) skills. In this area, he has directed an international |
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panel for ETS that defined ICT literacy, has designed and conducted a feasibility study |
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on ICT literacy for the OECD, and participates on an OECD advisory panel aimed at |
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establishing a new survey of adult skills for the 21st century. |
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