Dr Petra Lietz joined ACER in February 2009 as a Senior Research Fellow in the
National and International Surveys Program at the Australian Council for Educational
Research. Petra joined ACER from the position of Professor of Quantitative Research
Methods at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, where she had taught undergraduate and
graduate courses in logic of comparative research, secondary data analysis, statistics,
and research design since 2003. Courses in research methods and design also formed part
of her responsibilities at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton where she was a
Senior Lecturer in Research Methods in the Faculty of Business and Associate Dean
Research from 1997-2000.
Dr Lietz has also worked outside academia, as a consultant to the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and the International Association
for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in Hamburg. From 2000 to 2002, she
was Assistant Project Director at International Survey Research (then ISR, now
Towers-Perrin-ISR) in London, a firm that conducts employee satisfaction surveys for
globally as well as nationally operating companies.
Her research interests include survey research methodology and methodological issues in
internationally comparative research in which she has been involved since she started to
work at the International Coordinating Centre for IEA’s Second International Science
Study and Reading Literacy Study at Hamburg University in 1988. Her publications range
from contributions to professional journals on the nature of employee satisfaction to
referred journal articles of findings from multivariate and multilevel analyses with a
focus on factors influencing student achievement in various subject areas. In addition,
Dr Lietz has contributed chapters on descriptive and inferential statistics in methods
books for the social sciences.
Articles (Refereed)
Books
Contributions to Books
Large-scale group score assessments: Past, present, and future (with B Naemi, E Gonzalez, J Bertling, A Betancourt, J Burrus, P Kyllonen, J Minsky, E Klieme, S Vieluf, J Lee, and R D. Roberts), Oxford handbook of psychological assessment of children and adolescents (2011)
Articles
Unpublished Papers
Conference Papers & Presentations
Reports
