The Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) would like to congratulate Dr Karen Roux on her promotion to the position of senior lecturer. Dr Roux joined the Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education as senior lecturer in Assessment and Quality Assurance at the University of Pretoria on 1 January 2023. She teaches three postgraduate modules that deal with research methodology and quality assurance in education.

Dr Roux is a promoter of, and advocate for equivalent assessments across different languages. She has served on several committees that deal with curriculum design and development, as well as language and literacy. She also serves as a researcher at the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) and is involved in several research studies, including the large-scale international comparative study, the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Western Cape Education Department’s systemic test project.

She holds a PhD in Assessment and Quality Assurance from the University of Pretoria and was awarded the Bruce H Choppin Memorial Award for an outstanding PhD thesis that involved a study of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) data. Her study focused on the equivalence of the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) texts released across English, Afrikaans and isiZulu