Awards

The Kathleen Tattersall New Assessment Researcher Award

Through its New Assessment Researcher Award, AEA-Europe seeks to recognise members who are new to the field of educational assessment and who feel they have made a considerable contribution to the field.

The winner of the award is given the opportunity to make a keynote presentation at the AEA-Europe Annual Conference. As a keynote speaker they are supported with travel costs to the conference and receive 500 Euros as well as a certificate to acknowledge the 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.

The documentation must consist of a CV, a letter of application, which shows the motivation of the candidate, two nomination letters and an abstract (3000 words) of the research the candidate wishes to present.

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

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Award Details

Who is eligible for the award?

To be eligible as a New Researcher, the candidate should

be a “new” assessment researcher. “New” researchers are defined as being within the first three years after being awarded their doctoral degree from an institution in a country within Europe (full-time equivalent), including the period of research training. There is no age qualification. Candidates may apply before receiving their doctoral degree

be working, or studying, at an institution in a country within Europe;

have the support of professional colleagues that his/her work represents a considerable contribution to the assessment field;

have produced a keynote paper which the Council considers to be of sufficiently high quality to be presented to AEA-Europe members;

contribute to the aims of AEA-Europe.

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Past Winners

2024: Dr. Heather Kayton, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

2023: Dr. Vasiliki Pitsia, Educational Research Centre (ERC), Ireland

2022: Dr. Paula Lehane, School of Inclusive and Special Education in Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland

2021: Raphaël Pasquini, University of Teacher Education state of Vaud

2020: Dr. Stéphanie Berger, University of Zurich

2019: Dr. Aisling Keane, Queen’s University Belfast

2018: Dr. Maria Bolsinova, ACT Business Solutions, ACTNext, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017: Dr. Fazilat Siddiq, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU)

2016: Dr. Sebastiaan De Klerk, PhD Student at eX:plain and the Research Center for Examinations and Certification

2015: Ronny Scherer, Centre for Educational Measurement at the University of Oslo, Norway

2014: Yasmine El Masri, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, UK

2013: Fabienne Van Der Kleij, CITO, Netherlands

2012: Maria Teresa Florez, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, UK

2011: Matthieu Brinkhuis, Cito Psychometric Research Center, Netherlands

2010: Therese Nerheim Hopfenbeck, University of Oslo, Norway

2009: Saskia Wools, CITO, The Netherlands

2008: Antonella Poce, University Roma Tre, Italy

2007: Hanna Eklof, Umea University, Sweden