Jennifer Mary Poskitt

Jennifer Mary Poskitt is a New Zealand academic who is a full professor at Massey University with experience in educational assessment.

Career Poskitt is a trained teacher, and worked as a primary school teacher. Poskitt completed a master's degree on school culture and a PhD on action research and individualised learning programmes, both at Massey University. Poskitt then joined the faculty of Massey University, rising to full professor in 2024.

Poskitt is co-founder of the New Zealand Assessment Institute, with Michael Absolum. The institute is an "advocacy body focused on improving system capability in educational assessment". The Chair of the NZQA Board, Tracey Martin, acknowledged Poskitt's more than thirty year career in educational assessment. The award recognised Poskitt's "sustained and significant contributions to educational assessment research with impacts on policy and practice, both nationally and internationally", and also noted that she had supervised more than 70 postgraduate students.

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