Andrew D. 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 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.