Dr. Andrew Ho

Biography

Andrew Ho is the Charles William Eliot Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, currently on leave until the 2025-2026 academic year. His research focuses on assessment, online education, and student achievement outcomes, with an emphasis on improving the design, interpretation, and use of educational test scores in policy and practice. Known for developing methods to measure educational progress and address educational inequality, Ho is the creator of the national archive of student achievement data (SEDA) and advocates for low-stakes monitoring through educational tests. He has served as the Immediate Past President of the National Council on Measurement in Education and is involved with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Ho advises state testing programs in California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Texas as part of various Technical Advisory Committees. At Harvard, he teaches statistics and psychometrics, as well as advising students in the Education Policy Analysis Ed.M. program and the Educational Policy Program Evaluation Ph.D. program. Ho holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and an M.S. in Statistics, both from Stanford University, where he previously taught middle school creative writing and high school physics.

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