Awards
The Kathleen Tattersall New Assessment Researcher Award


How to apply?
AEA-Europe through its New Assessment Researcher Award seeks to give recognition to members who are new to the field of educational assessment and feel that through their research they have made a considerable contribution to the field.
The candidate has to provide documentation that will be evaluated by a panel consisting of Fellows of the Association.
Applications must be emailed to the AEA Secretariat at admin@aea-europe.net by 30th April each year. If you have any queries, please also email these to the Secretariat who will be pleased to offer support.

Kathleen Tattersall New Assessment Researcher Award: 2025 Award Winner
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Kathleen Tattersall New Assessment Researcher Award is Militsa Ivanova.
Militsa Ivanova is a school psychologist and an Educational Assessment Researcher with the University of Cyprus. She has experience working with large-scale international databases and process data, and her work was presented at national and international academic conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Militsa will also be presenting her award-winning research in a keynote presentation at the 26th annual conference of AEA-Europe in the Hague, between the 5th and 8th November 2026. Her presentation is entitled “Who tries and when in the digital age: Measuring and modeling test-taking effort through process data in large-scale assessments”.


AEA-Europe Poster Award
AEA–Europe encourages its membership to submit poster proposals for its Annual Conference each year. It is a very effective way for professionals engaged in assessment to present their work, having the opportunity to exchange ideas, get feedback to improve their work and develop new, shared projects together with other experts in the field.
“Winning the Poster Award filled me with pride and I was very happy that colleagues acknowledged my work. Furthermore, the prize, a visit to CITO where we could chat with colleagues about our work, get feedback and learn about all the work being carried out by CITO, was the highlight of my year.”
Deborah Chetcuti,
University of Malta Award Winner, 2015
Award Details
Who is eligible for the award?
To be eligible as a New Researcher, the candidate should
Past Winners
2024: Dr. Heather Kayton, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2023: Dr. Vasiliki Pitsia, Educational Research Centre (ERC), Ireland