Survey of Adult Skills – Reader's Companion

Annex B. Project participants in the 2023 Survey of Adult Skills

International Consortium

*indicates formerly in the position

Educational Testing Service (ETS) – Overall Management, Test Development, Platform Development, Psychometrics, Analysis and Data Products

Irwin Kirsch* (International Project Director)

Laura Halderman (International Project Manager)

Claudia Tamassia* (Strategic Advisor)

Eugenio Gonzalez* (Data Products, Training and Technical Report)

Luisa Langan* (Project Management, Background Questionnaire)

Judy Mendez (Project Support, Meetings and Contracts)

J. Franco (Project Support)

Dave Garber (Project Support)

Larry Hanover* (Project Support)

James Meadows (Project Support)

Rebecca Zanotti (Project Support)

Kentaro Yamamoto* (Director, Psychometrics and Analysis)

Frederic Robin (Director, Psychometrics and Analysis)

Usama Ali (Lead Psychometrician and Analyst)

Selene Lee (Psychometrics and Analysis)

Peter van Rijn (Psychometrics and Analysis)

Michael Wagner* (Director, Platform Development)

Paul Brost (Case Management System and Platform Development)

Chia-Chen Tsai (Questionnaire Authoring Tool and Platform Development)

Ramin Hemat* (Platform Development)

Debbie Pisacreta* (Platform Development)

Janet Stumper* (Platform Development)

Marylou Lennon* (Director, Test Development)

Kelly M. Bruce* (Test Development, Literacy and Reading Components)

Danielle Baum (Consultant, Paper Booklets)

Samuel Greiff (Consultant, Test Development, APS)

Juliana Gottschling (Consultant, Test Development, APS)

Jan Dörendahl (Consultant, Test Development, APS)

Kees Hoogland (Consultant, Test Development, Numeracy)

Isabelle Demonty (Consultant, Test Development, Numeracy)

Dave Tout (Consultant, Test Development, Numeracy)

Mathew Kandathil Jr. (Director, Data Analysis)

Carla Tarsitano* (Data Analysis Project Management Leader)

Kevin Bentley (Data Products)

Karen Castellano (Data Products)

Paul Hilliard (Data Analysis)

Lokesh Kapur (Data Analysis)

Phillip Leung (Data Products)

Tao Wang (Data Analysis)

Lingjun Wong (Data Analysis)

Wei Zhao (Data Analysis)

GESIS – Development of the Background Questionnaire

Beatrice Rammstedt (Scientific Director)

Silke Schneider (GESIS Project Lead, Lead Development and Validation of Formal Education Items and Variables, BQ Field Test Analysis Leader)

Natascha Massing (GESIS Project Co-Lead, Lead Development of Training Items and involved in BQ Field Test Analysis)

Verena Ortmanns (BQ Field Test Analysis)

Fabienne Kraemer (BQ Field Test Analysis)

Britta Gauly (Development of Training Items)

Anouk Zabal (Strategic Advisor)

Dorothée Behr (Lead BQ Translation, also involved in mixed-method online pretest)

Katharina Meitinger* (Mixed-method online pretest Leader)

J. Patricia Hadler (Mixed-method online pretest)

Timo Lenzner (Mixed-method online pretest)

Natalja Menold (Mixed-method online pretest)

Cornelia Neuert (Mixed-method online pretest)

Clemens Lechner (Lead Development and Analysis of Social and Emotional Skills Module)

Mattias Bluemke* (Co-Lead Development and Analysis of Social and Emotional Skills Module)

Ranjit Konrad Singh (Co-Lead Analysis of Social and Emotional Skills Module)

Matthias Roth (Analysis of Social and Emotional Skills Module)

Nivedita Bhaktha* (Analysis of Social and Emotional Skills Module)

Melanie Partsch* (Analysis of Social and Emotional Skills Module)

Isabelle Schmidt* (Analysis of Social and Emotional Skills Module)

Stefan Zins* (Lead Sampling Consultant)

Matthias Sand (Lead Sampling Consultant)

Christian Bruch (Sampling Consultant)

cApStAn – Linguistic Quality Control

Steve Dept (Verification Operations)

Andrea Ferrari (Verification Methodology and Management)

Laura Wäyrynen (Verification Methodology and Management)

Danina Lupsa* (Project Manager)

Grace DeLee (Project Manager)

Manuel Souto Pico (Translation Technologist)

Marielle Lerner* (Project Manager)

Shinoh Lee* (Project Manager)

Treonna Adams* (Project Manager)

Valentina Nardo (Project Manager)

Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University – Development of the Background Questionnaire

Rolf van der Velden* (Coordinator, Background Questionnaire Development)

Tim Huijts (Coordinator, Background Questionnaire Development)

Jim Allen (Background Questionnaire Development)

Babs Jacobs (Background Questionnaire Development)

Evie Graus (Background Questionnaire Development)

Nadine van Guilik (Background Questionnaire Development)

Roy Meijer (Background Questionnaire Development)

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) – Data Cleaning and Database Preparation

Tim Daniel (Lead International Data Management)

Darrell Gwaltney (Co-Lead International Data Management)

Abdullah Al-Azzawi* (Data Processing Systems)

Adeoye Oyekan* (Meta-Data and Derived Variables)

Ahmed Aboelela* (Data Processing Support)

Ankita Kulkarni* (Software Requirements and Testing)

Christian Harries (Software Development)

Christine Busch* (Meta-Data and Quality Control)

Clara Beyer* (Co-Lead International Data Management)

Daniel Ugurel (Data Processing and Material Receipt)

Deepti Kalamadi* (Software Development)

Delnaz Mohebi (Software Development)

Duygu Uyar (Data Processing Systems and Testing)

Elma Cela* (Software Requirements and Testing)

Ekaterina Mikheeva* (Software Requirements and Testing)

Guido Martin (Lead International Coding)

Hajar Zare* (Data Processing Systems and Testing)

Hannah Kowolik (National Adaptations)

Indreawes Khalil* (Data Processing and Material Receipt)

Jurij Lenar (Meta-Data, Codebooks and Derived Variables)

Limiao Duan (Software Development)

Maike Junod (Software Development)

Meng Xue (Lead Software Development)

Minja Nuspahic* (Data Processing Systems, Testing and Documentation)

Mohamadreza Atrian (Software Development)

Neha Yadav* (Software Development)

Oriana Mora* (National Adaptations and Codebooks)

Ralph Carstens (Senior Research Advisor)

Ranjith Radhakrishnan* (Software Testing)

Rea Car* (Software Requirements and Testing)

Renato Coppi (Data Processing)

Shreelakshmi Venkatabhattachar* (Software Development)

Svenja Kalmbach (National Adaptations and Data Processing)

Svetoslav Velkov (Software Testing)

Valentina Rivera Toloza* (National Adaptations)

Vanisa Vongphanakhone (National Adaptations and Material Receipt)

Widianto Persadha (Data Processing Systems)

Wolfram Jarchow (Meta-Data and Codebooks)

Westat – Sample Design and Selection, Weighting, Survey Operations, and Quality Control

Leyla Mohadjer* (Project Director, Sampling and Survey Operations)

Nina Thornton (Project Director and Manager Survey Operations)

Tom Krenzke (Senior Lead Statistician, Sampling Activities and Quality Control)

Wendy Van de Kerckhove (Senior Statistical Manager, Sampling Activities)

Laura Alvarez-Rojas (Senior Survey Statistician)

Lin Li (Senior Survey Statistician)

John Lopdell (Senior Survey Statistician)

William Cecere (Survey Statistician)

Andreea Erciulescu (Survey Statistician)

Angela Chen (Survey Statistician)

Elizabeth Eisenhauer (Survey Statistician)

Mike Kwanisai (Survey Statistician)

Oksana Balabay (Survey Statistician)

Jianzhu (Jane) Li* (Survey Statistician)

Veronica Salinas (Survey Statistician)

Véronique Lieber (Survey Statistician)

Yiting Long (Survey Statistician)

Weijia Ren* (Survey Statistician)

Ying Chen (Statistical Programmer)

Baifan Li (Statistical Programmer)

Michael Lemay* (Manager, Quality Control)

Lillian Diaz-Hoffmann* (Senior Advisor, Survey Operations)

Expert Groups

PIAAC Literacy Expert Group

Jean-François Rouet (Chair), CNRS and University of Poitiers, France

M. Anne Britt, Northern Illinois University, United States of America

Egil Gabrielsen, University of Stavanger, Norway

Johanna K. Kaakinen, University of Turku, Finland

Tobias Richter, University of Würzburg, Germany

PIAAC Numeracy Expert Group

Dave Tout (Chair), Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia

Terry Maguire, Institute of Technology Tallaght-Dublin, Ireland (Retired)

Vincent Geiger, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Javier Diez-Palomar, University of Barcelona, Spain

Kees Hoogland, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands

Isabelle Demonty, University of Liège, Belgium

Adaptive Problem Solving Expert Group

Samuel Greiff (Chair), Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany

Arthur C. Graesser, University of Memphis, United States of America

Dragoș Iliescu, University of Bucharest, Romania

Jean-François Rouet, CNRS and University of Poitiers, France

Katharina Scheiter, University of Potsdam, Germany

Ronny Scherer, University of Oslo, Norway

Background Questionnaire Expert Group

Guido Schwerdt (Chair), University of Konstanz, Germany

Giorgio Brunello, University of Padova, Italy

Nathalie Greenan, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France

Corinna Kleinert, University of Bamberg, Germany

Sandra McNally, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Michele Pellizzari, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Heike Solga, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany

Simon Wiederhold, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Germany

PIAAC Technical Advisory Group

Matthias von Davier (Chair), Boston College, United States

Henry Braun, Boston College, United States

Edward Haksing, Wake Forest University, United States

Irwin Kirsch, ETS, United States

Lars Lyberg, Stockholm University, Sweden

Leyla Mohadjer, Westat, United States

Irini Moustaki, London School of Economics, the United Kingdom

Kentaro Yamamoto, ETS, United States 

Board of Participating Countries

Co-Chairs

Aviana Bulgarelli (Italy) (until 2020)

Ted Reininga (the Netherlands) (until 2021)

Katalin Zoltán (Hungary) (since 2020)

James Davison (England, UK) (since 2021)

Delegates

Austria: Markus Bönisch, Mark Német and Robert Titelbach

Canada: Colin Bailey, Gilles Bérubé (until 2021), Bruno Rainville, Valérie Saysset, and Katerina Sukovski (until 2022)

Chile: Josefa Haydee Araya Mannett, Rosario Del Villar Montt (until 2021), Fabian Alexi Ramirez Godoy (2021-22), and González Velastín Rodrigo (until 2021)

Croatia (Observer): Verica Batur, Ivana Krešić Klaucke, Ognjen Piljek Žiljak, and Monica Vričko (until 2020)

Czechia: Klára Bezděková (until 2021), Matěj Bulant, Petra Holečková, Lubomír Martinec (until 2021), and Monika Měšťanová

Denmark: Signe Illum Lindegren Pedersen, Torben Hovmark, Lars Granhøj, Torben Hovmark, Charlotte Rotboll Sjøgreen

Estonia: Tiina Annus (until 2022), Kersti Kõiv (2022-24), and Irja Tamme

England (UK): Lorna Bertrand (until 2023), James Davison, and Aliki Pareas (since 2023)

Finland: Petri Haltia, Maija Lyly-Yrjänäinen, Petra Packalen, and Pauliina Porkka (2019-22)

Flemish Region (Belgium): Raf Boey and Anton Derks

France: Cécile Ballini (until 2022), Amaury Ducoulombier (2022), Alexanda Louvet (2022), and Serena Rosa (since 2022)

Germany: Andreas Henkes (until 2022), Katharina Koufen (until 2021), Marie Ullmann (2022-24), Annette Vogel (since 2024) and Susanne Ziemek

Hungary: Katalin Zoltán

Ireland: Aidan Clerkin (since 2022) and Jude Cosgrove (until 2022)

Israel: Iddo Gal and Orit Levin

Italy: Aviana Bulgarelli (until 2020), Agnese De Luca (2020-22), Anita Pisarro, Fabio Roma and Andrea Simoncini (since 2022)

Japan: Takashi Furudate (2020), Masataka Isashiki (since 2023), Yu Kameoka, Daisaku Matsukubo (2023), Rumiko Mori (2020-23), Hitomi Murai-Suzuki (since 2022) and Aya Naganuma (2024)

Korea: Sookweon Min (2020-23), Soohyun Yi (2024)

Latvia: Sanda Kasa, Viktors Kravcenko and Jeļena Muhina

Lithuania: Tomas Putys

Netherlands: Eszti Bambacht (2022-24), Andre de Moor, Teja Ouwehand, Sandra de Pleijt (until 2022), Ted Reininga (until 2021), Ib Waterreus (2021-22) and Prosper Zuiderwijk

New Zealand: Dee Earle, Rose Ryan (until 2022), Paul Satherley and Scott Ussher

Norway: Hild-Marte Bjørnsen, Gaute Losnegard and Ragnhild Nersten

Poland: Tomasz Gajderowicz and Piotr Mikiewicz (until 2024)

Portugal: Ana Cláudia Valente

Singapore: Soon Joo Gog

Slovak Republic: Monika Korkošová and Ildikó Pathóová

Spain: Carmen Menéndez González-Palenzuela and Carmen Tovar Sánchez

Sweden: Dan Grannas and Carina Lindén

Switzerland: Emanuel von Erlach, Amélie Speiser and Jacqueline Würth

United States: Stephen Provasnik

European Commission: Dana-Carmen Bachmann (until 2021), Sofie Doškárová, Joao da Graça Santos (until 2021), David Kunst (until 2023), Norbert Schoebel (until 2023), and Michaela Vahovská

National Project Managers

Austria: Eduard Stöger (Statistics Austria)

Canada: Sylvie Grenier (Statistics Canada)

Chile: Josefa Araya Mannett (Ministerio de Educación)

Croatia: Nena Rončević (Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka)

Czechia: Michaela Röschová (National Pedagogical Institute)

Denmark: Mona Larsen (VIVE- the Danish center for social science research)

Estonia: Triin Savisto (Ministry of Education and Research); Mari-Liis Perend (Statistics Estonia); Elsa Trumm (Ministry of Education and Research)

England (UK): Richard Brind (Kantar); Sarah Hingley (Kantar); James Davison (Department for Education)

Finland: Juhani Rautopuro (University of Jyväskylä); Joonas Mannonen (University of Jyväskylä)

Flemish Region (Belgium): Lisa Dewulf (Ghent University)

France: Sophie Planson (INSEE); Serena Rosa (DARES, Ministry of labour); Elena Reboul (DARES)

Germany: Beatrice Rammstedt (GESIS); Anouk Zabal (GESIS)

Hungary: Fruzsina Lukács (NOVETAL); Dóra Bari (NOVETAL)

Ireland: Kevin Healy (Central Statistics Office)

Israel: Haim Portnoy (Central Bureau of Statistics)

Italy: Valentina Gualtieri (Inapp)

Japan: Kaori Kato (NIER)

Korea: Sookweon Min (KRIVET); Soohyun Yi (KRIVET)

Latvia: Aija Zobena (University of Latvia)

Lithuania: Jolita Dudaitė (Qualifications and Vocational Education and Training Development Centre; Mykolas Romeris University)

Netherlands: Marieke Buisman (Kohnstamm Instituut - Universiteit van Amsterdam)

New Zealand: Paul Satherley (Ministry of Education); Neil Tee (CBG Public Sector Surveying)

Norway: Maja Kalcic (Statistics Norway); Anna-Lena Keute (Statistics Norway); Bengt Oscar Lagerstrøm (Statistics Norway)

Poland: Michał Sitek (Educational Research Institute)

Portugal: Luís Rothes (National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education and Training (ANQEP, IP)); João Queirós (National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education and Training (ANQEP, IP))

Singapore: Renee Tan (Institute for Adult Learning)

Slovak Republic: Zuzana Wirtz (National Institute for Education and Youth)

Spain: Juan Carchano (National Institute for Educational Assessment (INEE))

Sweden: Ann-Charlott Larsson (Statistics Sweden)

Switzerland: Emanuel von Erlach (Swiss Federal Statistical Office); Audrey Michelet (Swiss Federal Statistical Office); Anouk Widmer (Swiss Federal Statistical Office)

United States: Holly Xie (Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics)

OECD Secretariat

Francesco Avvisati (Analyst)

Elif Bahar (Junior Labour Market Economist)

Stijn Broecke (Senior Economist)

Vanessa Denis (Statistician) (until December 2022)

Marta Encinas-Martin (Analyst)

Nicolas Jonas (Analyst) (until December 2018)

François Keslair (Statistician)

Sabrina Leonarduzzi (Project Assistant)

Luca Marcolin (Labour Market Economist) (until January 2023)

Anja Meierkord (Labour Market Economist)

Marco Paccagnella (Analyst)

Glenda Quintini (Head of the Skills and Future Readiness Division)

Helke Seitz (Analyst)

Mila Staneva (Analyst)

Claudia Tamassia (Senior Analyst and Project Manager) (from December 2021)

William Thorn (Senior Analyst and Project Manager) (until November 2021)

Roland Tusz (Junior Labour Market Economist)

Hajar Sabrina Yassine (Statistician)