Dr. Magdalena Mok
Dr. Mok is a Chair Professor of Educational Assessment and Evaluation at Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She also serves as Chair Professor at the Graduate Institute of Educational Information and Measurement, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan. She received her PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1988. Her interests focus on educational measurement and statistics, and she has published over 90 refereed articles in those areas, and over 47 refereed chapters, edited and authored books. Dr. Mok is Director of Assessment Research Centre (ARC). Dr. Mok’s research interests focus on the integration of assessment and self-directed learning to enhance instruction and learning. She has developed the online assessment tools including the “Assessment Programme for Affective and Social Outcomes (APASO) – II” and the “Schools Value-Added Information System (SVAIS; with Dr. Peter Hill)” for the Education Bureau of Hong Kong.
Dr. Mok is editor-in-chief of the international journal Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology (Taylor & Francis). Her publications include Self-directed Learning Oriented Assessments in the Asia-Pacific and Adolescents’ Civic Engagement: A Study of Five Asian Societies (with Kerry J. Kennedy and Jinxin Zhu).