Dr. Xin Tao of Beijing Normal University has been chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Robert L. Linn Memorial Lecture Award. He will present his lecture at CRESSTCon’18. Dr. Xin Tao is the deputy director and a professor of statistics and measurement in the Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality at Beijing Normal University. He also serves as the deputy director of National Assessment Center of Education Quality in China. He received his Ph.D. in Beijing Normal University in 1997 and in Columbia University in 2004. His research interests include education quality evaluation, psychometrics, test theory and developmental psychology. He has directed more than 20 national projects supported by Chinese Ministry of Education or granted by organizations such as UNESCO and UNICEF. Meanwhile, he has published more than 150 research articles that appear in academic journals such as Psychometrika, Applied Psychological Measurement, Acta Psychologica Sinica, and Educational Research.