Appointment of Chief Assessment Scientist
BExcellent Group is pleased to announce that Dr LUO Guan Zhong has been appointed as the Chief Assessment Scientist of the Group and the Group has entered into a joint-venture named Assessment International (HK) Limited with Dr Luo for developing assessment-related services.
Dr Luo held a doctorate degree of philosophy in Mathematical Psychology obtained from Murdoch University in 1995. Prior to joining the Group, Dr Luo was the Director – Assessment Technology and Research (D-ATR) at the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (the “HKEAA”) and had been serving the authority for almost 15 years. Before his stint at the HKEAA, Dr Luo had held various academic positions as professor and adjunct professor at a number of universities in the mainland of The People’s Republic of China, Singapore and Australia. Dr Luo’s major area of research includes development of various psychometric models and parameter estimation algorithms for achievement and attitude measurements. His publications are internationally recognized, in particular the computer programmes for test data analysis and processing developed/co-developed by him are widely used by numerous major examination organisations and academic researchers in the education industry globally.
Assessment International (HK) Limited aims at enhancing the Group’s current assessment tools for senior secondary school level, as well as developing and introducing assessment tools for extending to junior secondary school and primary school levels. The ultimate goal of the Group is to utilize technologies in the collection, application and analysis of big data to provide effective assessment tools to students worldwide (with particular focus on the Great Bay Area of The People’s Republic of China) for the purpose of smart learning.
