From Oct 21th to Oct 23rd, the International Academic Seminar“Ideas and Actions for Educational Excellence”(IAEE) hosted by Nanjing Normal University was held at the Huadong Hotel in Nanjing. Professor Yan Yan attended the meeting as the guest speaker and delivered the keynote report of the conference.

  The theme of this international symposium is “Education Evidence-Based Research and Reform: Global Experience and China Exploration”, focusing on the latest developments in evidence-based research in international education: methodological innovation in education evidence-based research, evidence-based research and reform in China Topics such as the promotion path, education reform and development based on evidence-based research, and school improvement in evidence-based perspectives. Professor Robert E. Slavin, Director of the Center for Educational Research and Reform, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Professor Steven M. Ross, Director of Evaluation, Center for Education Research and Reform, Johns Hopkins University, USA, Professor Emeritus, Honorary, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Research Chairman, Professor Philip C. Abrami, former Director of the Center for Learning and Performance Studies, "Success for ALL, SFA" Foundation Co-founder, Foundation Chairman and CEO, John Hopkin Professor Nancy A. Madden, Center for Educational Research and Reform, Faculty of Education, Professor of the University of York, Professor Jonathan Haslam, Director of the Institute for Effective Education (IEE), Institute of Learning Science and Teacher Education, Catholic University of Australia Professor Clarence Ng, Research Director of the Centre for Learners, Professor of the University of Liège, Belgium, Director of the Centre for Preventive Research and Intervention of the School of Psychology, Language Therapy and Educational Sciences, National Director of the Belgian PISA Project, Professor Ariane Baye, Member of the National Science Council of Belgium, Professor Xin Tao, Deputy Director of the Basic Education Quality Monitoring Center of the Ministry of Education, and Collaborative Innovation Center for China's Basic Education Quality Monitoring, professor Yuan Zhenguo from East China Normal University and other 12 famous scholars served as keynote speakers and made a keynote speech.

      Professor Huang Jinyan’s report entitled “The Application of Modern Measurement Theories as Research Methodologies in
Evidence-based Educational Research”. From the discussion of the basic literacy of college teachers as the starting point, the report focuses on the importance of evaluation literacy and research literacy. Both assessment and research literacy require researchers to be familiar with and understand modern test theory (ie project response theory and generalization theory), their origin background, theoretical basis, practical application, and the use of advanced quantitative research methods in educational evidence-based research. The report combines multiple project response theories and generalized theory evidence-based research examples to analyze and discuss how to conduct research design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of results, and publication of papers; and how to learn to use project response theory and generalization theory as research Methods The education-based evidence-based study made recommendations. After the report, Professor Huang also had a lively interactive discussion with the teachers.

   Professo Huang is currently the director of the Research Institute for Educational Assessment and Research Methodology. He is a distinguished Jinshan professor of Jiangsu University. He has served as a tenured professor and doctoral tutor at the American University. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Teacher Certification Committee for English Education Project Evaluation and a US TESOL project evaluation expert. He is currently the editor of the International Journal of TESOL and Learning, Language and Communication Quarterly, Leadership and Policy Quarterly, and TESOL Quarterly, The Modern Language Journal, Assessing Writing, and Language Assessment Quarterly. The evaluation of SSCI academic journals has been deeply studied in terms of educational evaluation and research methods.