Dr Wolfram Schulz

Dr. Wolfram Schulz is Principal Research Fellow in ACER’s Surveys and International Assessment Program and has been working at ACER since 2001. He has a university degree in Political Science (Free University of Berlin) and is Doctor of Economic and Social Sciences (University of Rostock). Dr Schulz has ample experience with the analysis of large-scale survey data, questionnaire development, sampling procedures and item response modelling methods. He is giving advice on sampling, scaling and statistical analysis to external clients as well as project staff and has supervised data analytic work for many national and international large-scale surveys. After working as Research Director International Surveys from 2010 to 2019, and as Psychometric Manager at the ACER UK office in London from 2016 to 2018, he is now based in Hamburg (Germany) with responsibilities for ACER's European Business Development.

Dr Schulz has been involved in the design, implementation, analysis and reporting for a wide range of national and international large-scale assessment programs. He coordinated the development and scaling analysis for questionnaires used in different cycles of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2003, 2006 and 2022), was International Study Director of the first three cycles of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2009, 2016 and 2022) and contributed as Assessment Coordinator to the first two cycles of the IEA Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2013 and 2018). Further, Dr Schulz has been member of high-level technical advisory groups such as the IEA Technical Executive Group (TEG, 2015-2023) and the High Level Consultative Technical Council (CTAN) for the Latin American Comparative and Explanatory Regional Study (ERCE). In addition, he has coordinated ACER work on the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS 2024) and has been ACER senior survey advisor for several national and international studies including the OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS) and the OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES).