Andreas Frey
Andreas Frey is Professor for Educational Psychology with focus on Measurement, Evaluation & Counselling, managing director of the department for Educational Psychology and scientific director of the counseling center MAINKIND, all at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Previously, he was Professor for Empirical Methods in Educational Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and Professor II for Educational Measurement at the University of Oslo, Norway. He was responsible for the national IRT scaling of PISA 2006 in Germany and has since then been involved in various national and international large-scale assessments of student achievement. Currently, he is member of the German PIRLS 2026 consortium. the Andreas is Associate Editor of the journal Behavior Research Methods and has several other editorial roles such as Consulting Editor of the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. He serves as European Representative in the IACAT board and as President of the section Methods & Evaluation of the German Psychological Association (DGPs). His research interests are item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, methods of large-scale assessments, and theory-based and responsible use of AI for measurement purposes. His work was published in more than 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
