İsmail KARAKAYA

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Professor İsmail Karakaya completed his master’s degree in 2002 and his PhD in 2007 in the Department of Educational Measurement and Evaluation at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Ankara University. His doctoral dissertation, titled “Predictive Validity of the Student Selection Examination (ÖSS) for Higher Education,” focused on validity issues in large scale testing. Between 1999 and 2004, he worked as a teacher at the Ministry of National Education [MoNE], and from 2004 to 2008 he served as a measurement and evaluation specialist, contributing to curriculum and instructional material development as well as to projects conducted in collaboration with MoNE, UNICEF, and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye [TÜBİTAK]. He was a faculty member at Ondokuz Mayıs University between 2008 and 2012. He currently serves as a faculty member and Head of the Department of Educational Measurement and Evaluation in the Department of Educational Sciences at Gazi University, Gazi Faculty of Education.

Professor Karakaya has contributed as an editor, author, and chapter author to several books on performance and portfolio-based assessment, assessment in teaching Turkish as a foreign language, inter-rater reliability guidelines, preparation and scoring of open-ended questions, and the development and implementation of analytic scoring rubrics. His primary research interests include the reliability and validity of large-scale assessments, the assessment of 21st-century skills through paper-and-technology-based applications, rater behaviors, and rater training. He has published scholarly articles in these areas and has also taken part in projects supported by the European Union, the World Bank, and UNICEF in collaboration with various public institutions.