Ms Juliette Mendelovits is a Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Council for
Educational Research in the Assessment and Reporting research program. 

Since 1998, Ms Mendelovits has been engaged in work for the reading literacy component of
the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) project, an
international study of curricular and non-curricular performance of 15 year olds in over
30 countries. She played a leading role in the development of the reading literacy
instrument for PISA 2000 and is a co-author of Reading for Change: Performance and
Engagement Across Countries (OECD, 2002). She is currently coordinating reading literacy
framework and test development for PISA 2009. 

Her work focuses mainly on literacy and humanities test development. In recent years she
has led a team specialising in outcomes-based assessments and directed a number of
projects including the Victorian General Achievement Test, the Western Australian
Education Department's Monitoring Standards in Education program (English) and a
consultancy to the Indonesian National Ministry of Education on curriculum and assessment
reform. She initiated and directed the International Schools’ Assessment program
(2001-2006). 

Ms Mendelovits began her career as an educator in secondary and tertiary institutions
after graduating with a Master of Arts degree in English literature. She joined ACER in
1991. 

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Conference papers and presentations

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PISA for teachers: interpreting and using information from an international reading assessment in the classroom (with Dara Searle), ACER Research Conference: Assessment and Student Learning : Collecting, Interpreting and Using Data to Inform Teaching (2009)
 

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Retrieving information, interpreting, reflecting, and then... : using the result of PISA reading literacy, ACER Research Conference: Providing World-Class School Education (2002)
 

Reports

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Evaluation of school-based arts education programmes in Australian schools (with Jennifer Bryce, Adrian Beavis, Joy McQueen, and Isabelle Adams), Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation (2004)