Indrani Bhaduri, PhD is Professor and Head, PARAKH and Educational Survey Division at
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Ministry of Education,
India. She joined NCERT as Associate Professor in June 2002, prior to which, she taught
Education to graduate and postgraduate classes under Pune University. She supervised
several PhD scholars as guide in various Universities. She is a Post Graduate (MSc) in
Chemistry from Delhi University and has acquired her Master in Education (MEd) with
specialization in educational statistics and experimental psychology followed by PhD in
Education from Pune University. She is trained in ‘National Assessment Test Designs and
Psychometric Methods’ at Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ, USA; and
‘Large Scale Educational Survey: Analysis and Reporting’ at Australian Council for
Educational Research (ACER), Melbourne, Australia. Her area of specialization is
Educational Assessment and Psychometrics, Test Designing and Analysis and Reporting of
Large-Scale Achievement Survey and School Based Assessment to improve the Learning
Outcomes. She has been working in Educational Assessment and allied disciplines for 27
years. Her experience at NCERT includes addressing issues and activities pertaining to
planning, conduct, management, output, and dissemination of countrywide large-scale
studies/surveys for school education. She is associated with active policy level engagements
with state governments and other agencies in school education and largescale assessment
surveys under Samagra Siksha in India. She provides academic support in conducting
National and State level training programmes for various state and district level educational
administrators and other functionaries. Dr Bhaduri has presented papers in National and
International seminars/conferences. She has worked as resource person in workshops and
training programmes and delivered lectures in different universities/ academic institutes at the
National and International levels. Presently, she is also Head, National Achievement Survey
Cell, and Head, Educational Survey Division at NCERT. She is coordinating the
implementation of National Achievement Surveys (NAS) 2021, for Classes III, V, VIII, and
X and the National Achievement Survey at the Foundational Learning (FLN) for Ministry of
Education, Govt of India. She is a Steering Committee member for Implementation of NAS,
DIKSHA, and committee member for the Implementation of Programme of International
Student Assessment (PISA) in India.