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-'''Irwin Kirsch''' (born ) is the Director of the Center for Global Assessment at Educational
-Testing Service. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Measurement, Reading/Literacy
-from the University of Delaware in 1982. He joined ETS in 1984, and has directed a
-number of large-scale assessments in the area of literacy including the National Adult
-Literacy Survey, and the NAEP Young Adult Literacy Survey. He was also a key person
-in establishing the International Adult Literacy Surveys and has directed them for ETS
-since 1993. In 1987, he received the ETS Research Scientist Award for his work in the
-area of literacy and was named as an ETS Distinguished Presidential Appointee in 1999.
-Kirsch currently manages several large-scale surveys including the Adult Education
-Program Study with the U.S. Department of Education and the Literacy Assessment
-and Monitoring Program with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Kirsch also chairs
-the Reading Expert Group for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
-Development (OECD), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and
-has been involved with several efforts aimed at defining and measuring information and
-communication technology (ICT) skills. In this area, he has directed an international
-panel for ETS that defined ICT literacy, has designed and conducted a feasibility study
-on ICT literacy for the OECD, and participates on an OECD advisory panel aimed at
-establishing a new survey of adult skills for the 21st century.