Andrew Ho

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. 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.

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.

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.

•    Browse Andrew Ho's Curriculum Vitae (CV) and open-access      links to publications.
•    Share Andrew Ho's 1-pager on "Assessment Literacy."
•    Watch Andrew Ho's 8-minute talk, "Strength in Numbers."
•    Listen to a 28-minute podcast by Andrew Ho for parents, "Do my child's test scores really matter?"
•    Watch Andrew 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."