Rate My Professor Ilana Rosenbluh

Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Culture & Society, Faculty of Education at Monash University. A former school counsellor and sociologist by training, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Justice in Schools project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and visiting scholar positions at the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment and University College London's Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. Her research focuses on assessment and ethical frameworks that promote meaningful student voice to improve outcomes in complex educational environments. She explores the intersections of assessment, educational ethics, and student voice to promote quality, fairness, and inclusion, advocating for a student voice-based assessment model rooted in shared ethical responsibility, transparency, and democratic engagement. Recent work addresses methodological and normative implications of student voice data in contexts influenced by social media and AI-generated content, as well as ethical consequences of assessment data use for disadvantaged students.

As co-founder and co-lead of the Australasia-U.S. Educational Equity Hub (AUSEEH) with Pennsylvania State University, she advances student voice research and builds capacity to reassess educational tools and inequities. Supported by funders including the U.S. Department of State, Trawalla Foundation, Besen Family Foundation, and Loti and Victor Smorgon Family Foundation, her projects encompass empowering voices through student perception surveys, trauma-informed support systems, ethical responsibility in Jewish schooling, and teachers' climate-change dilemmas. Ilana has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Education Policy, Oxford Review of Education, and Educational Review, with key recent works including 'Steering the 'client'-oriented schooling ship: a moral-ecological assessment framework to preserve professional integrity' (2025), '“It's a financial decision”: students' ethical understandings of non-government faith-based schooling in a neoliberal society' (2025), and 'Ethical discourses of justice: understanding edu-philanthropy in exclusionary schools' (2025). She has contributed to Harvard Education Press publications and has a forthcoming book, 'Separation of Education and State: Ethical Dilemmas and Actions in U.S. Private Faith-Based Schools', from Oxford University Press. Awarded the 2022 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Engagement and Impact and the 2013 Israeli Council for Higher Education Research Award, she serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Student Voice and is affiliated with the UNESCO Chair for Community, Leadership, and Youth Development at Pennsylvania State University.