Associate Professor Michał Federowicz
The director of The Educational Research Institute and the project leader. He graduated in Sociology from the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw (1984). Prior to these studies, he graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology, Department of Precision Mechanics (1977) and started his research work in the Warsaw Institute of Aviation (1980-1984). In 1984 he started working in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
Professor Jolanta Choińska
The leader of the History Section. Historian, Professor of the University of Warsaw, long-term scholar of the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw, author of several textbooks and teaching aids. In 2007 – 2008 she headed the team working on the new core curriculum for history and civics. In 2010 she became the leader of the History Section working on a project "Quality and effectiveness of education - strengthening of institutional research capabilities."
Roman Dolata, PhD
The leader of the School Effectiveness Research Unit. Roman is an Educator and University of Warsaw graduate. His primary areas of research interest are social inequalities in education and evaluation of educational institutions. He is participating in the national team for international education research, including the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2011, IEA and the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2009.
Marcin Karpiński
He is the leader of the Mathematics Section at the Educational Research Institute and chief editor of “Matematyka w Szkole” (Mathematics at school). He is the co-author of several syllabi for mathematics teaching, a number of textbooks and workbooks for primary schools, lower secondary and secondary schools. In 2001 he joined the team working on the secondary school core curriculum for mathematics.
Magdalena Krawczyk-Radwan, PhD
The leader of the Teacher Research Unit, Magdalena is a sociologist and graduate of the Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Warsaw. She is a doctoral student at the Institute of Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, and scholarship holder of the Collegium Invisibile (Education Sociology) at the Charles University in Prague (the history of the university) and at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor; quantitative methods in social sciences).
Elżbieta Barbara Ostrowska, PhD
Elżbieta is the leader of the Science Section Team holding a doctorate in natural sciences. Since 2000 she has worked as scientific secretary of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which in Poland is conducted by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences. Within this project, she is responsible for measuring scientific and reasoning skills.
Michal Sitek, PhD
Michał Sitek is the Deputy Director for Research in the Educational Research Institute. He is also a member of the Programme Council of the project "Quality and effectiveness of education - strengthening of institutional research capabilities."
Sociologist, graduate of the University of Silesia and of the Central European University. Participant in the International Summer School of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Stefan Batory Foundation (1996, 1997 and 1998).
Henryk Szaleniec, PhD
He earn his doctorate in the Humanities. He is the co-founder and since 2004 the chair of the Board of the Polish Society of Educational Diagnostics. Between 1988 and 1990 he coordinated national research on the use of computers in education as part of an international IEA project “the Comped Study.” From 1990 to 1999 he ran the Regional Methodological Centre in Kraków and, later on, in 1999-2007 he was Deputy Head and Head of the District Examination Board in Kraków.
Magdalena Szpotowicz, PhD
Magdalena is the leader of the Foreign Language Section at the Educational Research Institute and a graduate of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. She is a lecturer and ESL expert at the Centre for Foreign Language Teacher Training at the University of Warsaw and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education specialising in the Teaching of English in Early Childhood.
Dorota Wiszejko-Wierzbicka, PhD
Leader of the Policy Research Unit. Dorota graduated from the Psychology Department of the University of Warsaw and the School of Social Sciences at the Polish Academy of Science as an enthusiastic and experienced researcher. Working for market research companies (Millward Brown SMG/KRC, IQS) and at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, she has gained broad experience in scientific research, investigating public opinion and market factors.
