Andrew Ho

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Andrew Ho is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a psychometrician whose research aims to improve the design, use, and interpretation of test scores in educational policy and practice. Professor Ho is known for his development of methods for measuring educational progress and educational inequality. He is a developer of a national archive of student achievement data (SEDA) and an advocate for using educational tests for low-stakes monitoring in multiple-measures systems.

Professor Ho is the Immediate Past President of the National Council on Measurement in Education. He has served as a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a member of the Governing Board for the National Assessment of Educational Progress. He serves on Technical Advisory Committees advising state testing programs for 7 states: California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Texas. At HGSE, he teaches courses in statistics and psychometrics. He advises students in the Education Policy and Analysis Ed.M. program and the Educational Policy and Program Evaluation Ph.D. program, among others.

Professor Ho holds his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and his M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University. Before graduate school, he taught middle school creative writing in his hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii, and high school Physics and AP Physics in Ojai, California.

Here are 5 ways to get to know Professor Ho's scholarship and perspectives, whether you're a professor, a practitioner, or a parent:

  1. Browse Professor Ho's Curriculum Vitae (CV) and open-access links to publications.
  2. Read and share Professor Ho's 1-pager on "Assessment Literacy."
  3. Watch Professor Ho's 8-minute talk, "Strength in Numbers."
  4. Listen to a 28-minute podcast by Professor Ho for parents, "Do my child's test scores really matter?"
  5. View Professor Ho's 48-minute Presidential Address at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education: "Metaphors, Mantras, and Mnemonics: Communication Competencies in Educational Measurement."

If you are a prospective Ph.D. student interested in working with Professor Ho, please read his Advice to PhD Applicants.