Professor Zi Yan is Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and an RGC Senior Research Fellow. His research centres on educational assessment — in particular formative assessment and student self-assessment — and the application of Rasch measurement to learning. He has been awarded substantial competitive funding, including nearly HK$8 million under the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme.

Research interests

• Educational assessment
• Formative & self-assessment
• Rasch measurement

Selected publications

• A cyclical self-assessment process: towards a model of how students engage in self-assessment.
• Student self-assessment: why do they do it? Educational Psychology Review.
• Assessment as learning: how it works and how to make it work.