Esther Ho

Director of Hong Kong Centre for International Student Assessment The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Esther Sui Chu HO is Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy, and Director of the Hong Kong Centre for International Student Assessment at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been the National Project Manager of HKPISA 2000+, 2003, 2006, 2009. 2012 and 2015. She had previously been a teacher in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong; Fulbright Scholar at Pennsylvania State University (2004) and Johns Hopkins University (2010); Research Associate of the project Education and Development in South China; Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the University of British Columbia, Canada; Teaching Consultant of the World Bank in the District Primary Educational Program, India. Her research interests focus on international student assessments, longitudinal study of adolescents and young adults, parental involvement in children’s education, home-school community collaboration, health and well being, school effectiveness and school reform, decentralization and school-based management, research methodology in education, multilevel analysis in educational research.