249 Eva Klemenčič Dr. Eva Klemenčič je raziskovalka, vodja Centra za uporabno epistemo­ logijo na Pedagoškem inštitutu. Je nacionalna raziskovalna koordinator­ ka dveh mednarodnih raziskav znanja IEA, in sicer ICILS in ICCS. Je predstavnica Slovenije v Generalni skupščini IEA in ena od ustanoviteljic mednarodne raziskovalne mreže, ki se ukvarja z raziskovanjem uporabe podatkov mednarodnih raziskav znanja za nacionalno oblikovanje poli­ tik na področju edukacije. Njena glavna raziskovalna področja so: medna­ rodne raziskave znanja, državljanska vzgoja, učbeniški tekst, didaktika so­ ciologije, sociologija izobraževanja, znanje. Dr. Eva Klemenčič is a researcher, head of the Center for Applied Episte­ mology at the Educational Research Institute, which conducts the OECD PISA and all IEA international large­ scale student assessments in which Slovenia participates. Additionally she is national research coordinator of two of them, ICILS and ICCS. Eva Klemenčič is also a representati­ ve of Slovenia in the General Assembly of the IEA and one of the foun­ ders of the international research network that conducts research on the use of international large­ scale student assessments datasets to the natio­ nal policy­ making in the field of education. Her main research areas are international large­ scale student assessments, citizenship education, text­ book analyses, didactics of sociology, sociology of education, and theori­ es of knowledge. Plamen V. Mirazchiyski Plamen V. Mirazchiyski ima magisterij in doktorat znanosti iz social­ ne pedagogike ter diplomo iz predšolske vzgoje in osnovnošolskega izo­ Avtorji šolsko polje, letnik xxvii, številka 3–4 250 braževanja. Bil je zaposlen v Centru za kontrolo kakovosti in preverjanje znanja pod okriljem Ministrstva za šolstvo, mlade in znanost v Bolgari­ ji, kjer je bil zadolžen za področje psihometrije in analiz nacionalnih pre­ verjanj znanj. Od leta 2008 je bil zaposlen v International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement – Data Processing and Re­ search Centre (IEA­ DPC) v Hamburgu (Nemčija), kjer je bil zadnja tri leta namestnik vodje oddelka za raziskovanje in analize. Za tem se je pre­ selil v Slovenijo, kjer je zaposlen kot izvršni direktor International Educa­ tional Research and Evaluation Institute (INERI). Njegova raziskovalna področja so predvsem naslednja: bralna pismenost, matematična in nara­ voslovna pismenost, državljanska vzgoja, IKT v izobraževanju, metodolo­ gija mednarodnih raziskav znanja in mednarodnih primerjalnih študij ter psihometrija. Plamen V. Mirazchiyski holds a master and PhD degrees in Social Pe­ dagogy and has a Bachelor‘s degree in Pre­ school and Primary Educati­ on. He was employed at the Center for Control and Assessment of the Quality in Education (CKOKO) at the Bulgarian Ministry of Educati­ on, Youth and Science (MEYS) where he was responsible for the psycho­ metrics and analysis of national studies in education. Since 2008 Plamen has been employed at the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement – Data Processing and Research Centre (IEA­ ­ DPC) in Hamburg (Germany), where he was the Deputy Head of the Re­ search and Analysis Unit for three years. Since July 2016, he has become the Chief Executive Officer the International Educational Research and Evaluation Institute (INERI). His main research interests are reading li­ teracy, mathematics and science education, civic and citizenship educati­ on, ICT in education, methodology of large­ scale assessments and psycho­ metrics. Mojca Štraus Mojca Štraus se raziskovalno ukvarja z mednarodnimi in nacionalni­ mi raziskavami različnih področij v izobraževanju in je vodila vrsto raz­ iskovalnih projektov. Trenutno je njena primarna naloga nacionalno ko­ ordinatorstvo raziskave PISA na Pedagoškem inštitutu in predstavljanje Slovenije v Mednarodnem svetu PISA. Njeno raziskovalno delo je poleg raziskovanja šolskega polja usmerjeno v teoretično in praktično obravna­ vo različnih statističnih pristopov pri analizi podatkov mednarodnih raz­ iskav v izobraževanju. Mojca Štraus is a researcher in international and national studies of diffe­ rent areas in education and served as the leader of many research projects at the Educational Research Institute. Currently her main task is the coor­