Dr Lee Ong Kim – Our Team Psychometrician

LEE ONG KIM, CHIEF STATISTICIAN, B.Sc (Hons), Masters in. Research Methodology, PhD in MESA

Chief Statistician of KYKO International Pte Ltd, Lee Ong Kim has been with the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from 02 January 2000 where he served as Associate Professor, Head of the Policy and Leadership Studies Department, and as Associate Dean of Education Research.

He left NIE on 01 January 2012. Prior to joining NIE, he served the Ministry of Education of Malaysia for 25 years from 1975 till 31 December 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992, specializing in Measurement, Evaluation and Statistical Analysis (MESA). His Masters degree was from the University of Pittsburgh in the area of Research Methodology, received in 1984 while his first degree, a B. Sc. (Hons), was in Physics from the University of Malaya obtained in 1973.

His areas of interest include testing and measurement which cover test item construction and calibrations, test equating and the construction of variables through the use of Rasch Measurement. He has conducted training programs for education officers from the Maldives, Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Malaysia. He has also provided consultancy services to several divisions of the Malaysian Ministry of Education, non-governmental organizations in Malaysia, some schools in Singapore, the Ministry of Education and Youth in the United Arab Emirates, the Ministry of Education of Qatar, the National Institute of Educational Management in Vietnam, and the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

He is one of the founding members of the World Educational Research Association and was a Council Member from September 2009 to June 2016. He is also a life member of the Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS) for which he was President for four years from 2007 to 2011. He is also a member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He was elected Vice-President of the World Educational Research Association (WERA) for a two year term from July 2012 and was re-elected Vice-President for another two-year term from 01 July 2014 to 30 June 2016.