Cassandra Barber is demographer and PhD Candidate from Maastricht University (The Netherlands). She
is research associate and psychometrician at Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council. Her
research interests focus on institutional effectiveness, program evaluation, and outcomes measurement
to explore how data can be used to quantify educational outcomes and identify areas for improvement.
She specializes in program evaluation, demography, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and
spatial modeling. Cassandra also has extensive experience in psychometrics, survey design and the
development of assessment tools. She completed her masters level training in Sociology, specializing in
migration and ethnic relations at Western University, Canada. Cassandra has worked in various
academic and applied educational (K-12), health professions and national regulatory professional
settings as program evaluator, research associate and independent consultant. She serves as a reviewer
on various peer-reviewed academic higher education journals and is also a member and active
participant of professional networks and organizations.