Professor Louis Volante recently published a book with Routledge Press entitled “The Intersection of International Achievement Testing and Educational Policy: Global Perspectives on Large-Scale Reform.”

This edited volume discusses the policy implications of international achievement testing measures, particularly those administered by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement). 

Contributors included Professors Eva Baker (inaugural president of WERA and past president of AERA), Don Klinger (current president of CSSE), as well as a number of international scholars from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand. A full list of chapter contributors is available from Routledge Press: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138936539

Volante has given invited presentations related to this program of research at the University College London – Institute for Education, University of Glasgow, University of Bristol and the Securing the Futures Conference hosted by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He will also be leading a symposium presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), which will meet this August in Dublin, Ireland.

Volante recently completed a term as a Visiting Professor at UNU-MERIT/Maastricht Graduate School of Governance in the Netherlands.