Les McLean
University of Toronto

Email: lmclean@oise.utoronto.ca

Les McLean is a Professor (Emeritus, as of July 1, 1996), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He received his doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1964, specializing in statistics and research methods. After teaching at Columbia University Teacher's College, Dr. McLean joined the OISE faculty in 1966, teaching courses in measurement, statistics, quantitative and qualitative research methods and program evaluation. He continues to teach on a contract basis, year-to-year.

Research and development projects have included a national study of the evaluation of student achievement for the Canadian Education Association, several province-wide surveys of student achievement, direction of Ontario's participation in the Second International Mathematics Study and research into mathematics/language relationships in curriculum and pedagogy. Les, Doris Ryan and Barbara Burnaby directed an evaluation of four projects in the Canada/China Human Resources Development programme for the Canadian International Development Agency.

Publications include, The Craft of Student Evaluation in Canada (Toronto:CEA, 1985), Learning About Teaching from Comparative Studies (Toronto:Min. of Educ., 1987, with Richard Wolfe and Merlin Wahlstrom), and "The U.S. national assessments in reading: reading too much into the findings" (Phi Delta Kappan, 69, 5, 1988, 369-372, with Harvey Goldstein). "Time to replace the classroom test with authentic measurement" (Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 36(1), 1990, 78-84), "Student evaluation in the ungraded primary school: The SCRP principle" (Proceedings of the Second Canadian Conference on Classroom Testing, D. Bateson, Ed., UBC, 1992) and "Pedagogical relevance in large-scale assessment" (Advances in Program Evaluation, R. Stake, Ed., 1991).

For recent publications,see http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~lmclean/.