Therese Hopfenbeck

Therese N. Hopfenbeck is Professor of Educational Assessment and Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre within the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Faculty of Education, at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD from the University of Oslo and commenced her academic career as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oslo’s research group for Measurement and Evaluation of Student Achievement from 2010 to 2011. In 2012, she joined the University of Oxford’s Department of Education as Lecturer in Educational Assessment, advancing to Associate Professor in 2015 and Full Professor in 2019. From 2016 to 2022, she served as Managing Director and subsequently Director of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, leading international large-scale assessment studies, classroom-based video studies, and projects such as evaluations for the International Baccalaureate on critical thinking in schools and the PISA 2022 study across England, Northern Ireland, and Wales.

Hopfenbeck’s research specializations encompass formative assessment, assessment for learning, peer assessment, self-regulated learning, large-scale international assessments including PISA and PIRLS, classroom-based methodologies, and the ethical integration of AI in educational assessment. She chairs the OECD PISA 2025 Questionnaire Framework group, served as President of the Association for Educational Assessment-Europe from 2022 to 2024, and was Lead Editor of Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice from 2015 to 2024. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Key publications include "The impact of peer assessment on academic performance: A meta-analysis of control group studies" (2020), "Assessment and learning: Fields apart?" (2017), "Lessons learned from PISA: A systematic review of peer-reviewed articles on the Programme for International Student Assessment" (2018), and "Balancing tensions in educational policy reforms: large-scale implementation of Assessment for Learning in Norway" (2015). Her work has garnered over 4,100 citations on Google Scholar, influencing global educational assessment policies and practices. In 2010, she received the Association for Educational Assessment-Europe New Assessment Researcher Award.

Professional Email: therese.hopfenbeck@unimelb.edu.au