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dr hab. Roman Dolata, prof. UW (Associate Researcher) ORCID logo ORCID,  Research Gate,  Google Scholar

Head of the Department of Education Policy and Social Research on Education (University of Warsaw, Poland). He specializes in educational measurement, evaluation of educational institutions, and problems of social inequalities in education. He is a co-creator of the Polish adaptation of the educational method of added value (i.e., using the examination results to evaluate the learning outcomes). He was a member of research teams implementing the international educational research PISA, PIRLS, TIMSS in Poland. Significant publications: Dolata R. (2008). School-segregation-inequalities. Warsaw, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego; Dolata, R., Jasińska-Maciążek, A., Smulczyk, M., Stelmach, J. (2021). Educational Observatory in Ostrołęka - educational research supporting local policy. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Ważniejsze publikacje:

  • Dolata R. (2008). School-segregation-inequalities. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
  • Dolata, R., Jasińska-Maciążek, A., Smulczyk, M., Stelmach, J. (2021). Educational Observatory in Ostrołęka - educational research supporting local policy. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

 

Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw, ul. Mokotowska 16/20, 00-561 Warsaw, Poland

e-mail: rdolata@uw.edu.pl

 

dr Marek Muszyński (Associate Researcher) ORCID logo ORCID,  Research Gate,  Google Scholar

Marek MuszyńskiCurrently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main research investigations concentrate around response biases (response styles, careless responding, socially desirable responding) in self-report data with a special focus on web surveys. He is also interested in more general psychological and educational assessment research topics.

He holds a PhD degree in sociology and an MA diploma in cognitive psychology, both from Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland). He also graduated from a post-graduate programme in educational measurement held at Jagiellonian University and Educational Research Institute. His PhD thesis was focused on validity study of the overclaiming technique as a tool to account for positivity bias in self-assessment questions. Previously, he used to work as an educational consultant and researcher for various constituents, e.g. the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Evidence Institute (Warsaw, Poland), Educational Research Institute (IBE; Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych, Poland) or OECD.

 

Research Projects

  • 2016 New methods of identifying and correcting for socially desirable responding in self-evaluation of educational skills: comparison and validation. Grant for young researchers, Jagiellonian University.
  • 2014 Polish adaptation of the BIDR-6 questionnaire. Grant for young researchers, Jagiellonian University.
  • 2013-2016 English as a foreign language in Polish schools: process and effects of teaching. Research project in Educational Research Institute.
  • Pokropek, Artur, Muszyński, Marek, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2022). The impact of growing participation in PISA on scaling outcomes. A Monte Carlo simulation study. OECD Education Working Papers No. 277. Paris: OECD Publishing.
  • Muszyński, Marek, Pokropek, Artur, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2021). Structural Validity of Overclaiming Scores: analysing PISA 2012 data. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling 63(1), 119-145.
  • Durlik, J., Szewczyk, J., Muszyński, M., & Wodniecka, Z. (2016). Interference and inhibition in bilingual language comprehension: Evidence from Polish- English interlingual homographs. PLOS ONE, 11(3), e0151430.
  • Muszyński, M., Kondratek, B., Gajewska-Dyszkiewicz, A., Paczuska, K. & Szpotowicz, M. (2016). Właściwości psychometryczne egzaminu maturalnego 2015- język angielski, poziom podstawowy. Analizy IBE 2/2016, 1-30. [in Polish: Psychometric properties of the final high-school exam 2015- English, basic level.]
  • Muszyński, M., Campfield, E. D. & Szpotowicz, M. (2015). Język angielski w szkole podstawowej – proces i efekty nauczania. Wyniki podłużnego badania efektywności nauczania języka angielskiego (2011-2014). Warszawa: IBE. [book in Polish: English in primary schools: process and the effects of teaching. Results of longitudinal study on the effective English teaching (2011-2014).]
  • Muszyński, M., & Jakubowski, M. (2015). Use of learning strategies and reading performance- PISA 2009 results for Poland. Edukacja/Education Quarterly, 3(134), 5-25.

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

00-330 Warsaw, Poland
72 Nowy Świat Street

room 207

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Artur-Pokropek-Lab

 

dr Tomasz Żółtak (Associate Researcher) ORCID logo ORCID,  Research Gate,  Google Scholar

Tomasz Żółtak

Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests concentrate on applied statistics and research methodology mostly in the fields of educational research and political science. He’s also involved in development of data processing, analysis and reporting solutions for both other scientists and a more general audience.

He holds PhD degree in sociology from University of Warsaw. For many years he worked at Educational Research Institute in Warsaw on applied research projects regarding measuring school-effectiveness using examination scores and tracking further educational and professional careers of graduates. Apart from research he has experience also in teaching (courses on data analysis for MA students and on causal inference for PhD students at the University of Warsaw) implementing advanced psychometric methods in business solutions (collaboration with Polish firms Diagmatic and Talent Bridge) and software development (author and contributor to several R packages).

 

Fundamental research

Research team member in projects:

  • 2020 – 2023 Understanding response styles in self-report data: consequences, remedies and sources. The National Science Centre grant "Opus" (Opus/17/HS6/00937).
  • 2014 – 2015 Disproportionality in Polish 2010 and 2014 municipal elections. The National Science Centre grant Preludium (2013/09/N/HS5/00276).
  • 2013 – 2015 From School to Work: Individual and Institutional Determinants of Educational and Occupational Career Trajectories of Young Poles. The National Science Centre grant Maestro (DEC-2012/06/A/HS6/00323).

Applied research

Research team member in projects:

  • 2019 – 2020 Development of intelligent tools for the psycho-social-educational diagnosis of children and adolescents. Project financed within Operational Programme Smart Growth of the European Union (POIR.01.01.01-00-0402/18-00).
  • 2019 – 2020 Tracking the educational and career paths of vocational education graduates - phase II. Project financed within Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development of the European Union (POWR.02.15.00-IP.02-00-002/19).
  • 2016 – 2019 Tracking the educational and career paths of graduates and young adults. Project financed within Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development of the European Union (POWR.02.15.00-IP.02-00-004/16).
  • 2014 – 2015 Development of educational value-added methodology to strengthen external examinations' evaluation function. Project financed within Operational Programme Human Capital of the European Union (UDA-POKL.03.02.00-00-001/13-00‎).
  • 2010 – 2013 Developement of  the educational value-added methodology. Project financed within Operational Programme Human Capital of the European Union (UDA-POKL.03.02.00-00-010/07-04).
  • Breznau, Nate, Rinke, Eike Mark, Wuttke, Alexander, …, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2022). Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(44). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2203150119
  • Meuleman, Bart, Żółtak, Tomasz, Pokropek, Artur, Davidov, Eldad, Muthen, Bengt, Oberski, Daniel, Billiet, Jaak, Schmidt, Peter. (2022). Why measurement invariance is important in comparative research. A response to Welzel et al.
    (2021). Sociological Methods and Research, opublikowany na stronie internetowej czasopisma. doi: 10.1177/00491241221091755
  • Pokropek, Artur, Muszyński, Marek, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2022). The impact of growing participation in PISA on scaling outcomes. A Monte Carlo simulation study. OECD Education Working Papers No. 277. Paris: OECD Publishing.
  • Hawrot, Anna, Jasińska, Aleksandra, Żółtak, Tomasz, Tomaszewska, Hanna, Marchlik, Paulinina. (2022). Various reasons, various trajectories? Interrupted schooling among Polish upper secondary school students. Research Papers in
    Education 37(3), 418-440. doi: 10.1080/02671522.2020.1849373
  • Muszyński, Marek, Pokropek, Artur, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2021). Structural Validity of Overclaiming Scores: analysing PISA 2012 data. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling 63(1), 119-145.
  • Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka, Lewkowicz, Jo, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2020). Assessment of B2 English exam writing subtest: A quantitative analysis of the results of a pro-quality study. W: Andrzej Dąbrowski, Radosław Kucharczyk, Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska i Jolanta Sujecka-Zając (red.) Competences of the 21st Century: Certification of language proficiency. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
  • Hawrot, Anna, Jasińska, Aleksandra, Żółtak, Tomasz, Tomaszewska, Hanna, Marchlik, Paulinina. (2020). Various reasons, various trajectories? Interrupted schooling among Polish upper secondary school students. Research Papers in Education. doi: 10.1080/02671522.2020.1849373
  • Gendźwiłł, Adam, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2020). Do parties and voters counteract quota regulations? The impact of legislative gender quotas on ballot ranking and preference voting in Poland. Politics & Gender 16(1), 199-229. doi: 10.1017/S1743923X18000880
  • Rajchert, Joanna, Żółtak, Tomasz, Szulawski, Michał, Jasielska, Dorota. (2019). Effects of rejection by a friend for someone else on emotions and behavior. Frontiers in Psychology 10, 764. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00764
  • Gendźwiłł, Adam, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2017). How single-member districts are reinforcing local independents and strengthening mayors: on the electoral reform in Polish local government. Local Government Studies 43(1), 110‑131. doi: 10.1080/03003930.2016.1254624
  • Żółtak, Tomasz, Golonka, Grzegorz. (2015). Does guessing matter? Differences between ability estimates from 2PL and 3PL IRT models in case of guessing. Edukacja 134(3), 63-76.
  • Gendźwiłł, Adam, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2014). Why Do Nonpartisans Challenge Parties in Local Politics? The (extreme) case of Poland. Europe-Asia Studies 66(7), 1122‑1145. doi: 10.1080/09668136.2014.927644
  • Rajchert, Joanna, Smulczyk, Marek, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2014). Predicting reading literacy and its improvement in the Polish national extension of the PISA study: The role of intelligence, trait- and state-anxiety, socio-economic status and school-type. Learning and Individual Differences 33, 1‑11. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.11.020
  • Rajchert, Joanna, Smulczyk, Marek, Żółtak, Tomasz. (2013). Trait-anxiety’s moderating role in predicting academic performance improvement in PISA. Polish Journal of Applied Psychology 11(3), s. 73-92.

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

00-330 Warsaw, Poland
72 Nowy Świat Street

room 207

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Artur-Pokropek-Lab

 

mgr Kazimierz Czarnocki (Associate Researcher) ORCID logo ORCID, Research Gate

 

inż. Ernest Pokropek (Associate Researcher) ORCID logo ORCID, Research Gate,  Google Scholar

Ernest Pokropek is a research engineer at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he simultaneously pursues his master’s degree in machine learning. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering in computer science from Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of Warsaw University of Technology in 2021. He is interested in applied machine learning with emphasis on its usage in the field of effective altruism, especially utilizations in the medical sector and fighting disinformation.

He works in research since the second year of his undergraduate studies, has scientific articles in journals such as Structural Equation Modeling or International journal of environmental research and public health, he presented his works on conferences such as AMSUS 2020, NeurIPS 2020, or AMIA 2021. He repeatedly participated in research projects at Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw, Poland, 2019-2021), interned at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA, 2020) and now he works as a research engineer at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden, 2021-now) in a group specialized in computer vision.

Cachay, S. R., Erickson, E., Bucker, A. F. C., Pokropek, E., Potosnak, W., Osei, S., & Lütjens, B. (2020). Graph Neural Networks for Improved El Ni\~ no Forecasting. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01598.

Markowski, K., Wojakowski, K., Pokropek, E., & Marzęcki, M. (2020). Numerical and experimental performance analysis of the chirped fiber bragg grating based abrasion sensor for the maintenance applications in the industry 4.0. Sensors, 20(3), 770.

Baranowska, B., Kajdy, A., Pawlicka, P., Pokropek, E., Rabijewski, M., Sys, D., & Pokropek, A. (2020). What are the critical elements of satisfaction and experience in labor and childbirth—a cross-sectional study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(24), 9295.

Pokropek, A., & Pokropek, E. (2022). Deep Neural Networks for Detecting Statistical Model Misspecifications. The Case of Measurement Invariance. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1-18.

Broomé, S., Pokropek, E., Li, B., & Kjellström, H. (2021). Recur, Attend or Convolve? Frame Dependency Modeling Matters for Cross-Domain Robustness in Action Recognition. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12175.

Rühling Cachay, S., Erickson, E., Bucker, A. F. C., Pokropek, E., Potosnak, W., Osei, S., & Lütjens, B. (2021, April). Graph Deep Learning for Long Range Forecasting. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU21-9141).

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Teknikringen 14 room no. 411, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

E-mail: pokropek@kth.se

Contact

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
00-330 Warsaw, Poland
72 Nowy Świat Street

Information about the project

The project is a part of a research grant from the National Science Center, Poland (Sonata Bis-10: UMO-2020/38 / E / HS6 / 00302). Value of the funds granted: PLN 3,983,436.