Rate My Professor Nina Rovis-Hermann

Dr. Nina Rovis-Hermann is a lecturer in the School of Education at Murdoch University, where she has held academic positions since 2014. She is also affiliated with the School of Psychology and Exercise Science and serves as a lecturer in Education Psychology. Rovis-Hermann completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Murdoch University in 2024. Her doctoral thesis, titled 'A critique of neoliberal meritocracy, the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR)', explores the production of upper secondary students' subjectivities within neoliberal educational contexts. Her academic background is rooted in critical social psychology and education psychology. As a researcher, she engages in multidisciplinary work centered on a critical social psychology framework, with a special interest in the relationship between the quantification of self, identity formation, and psychological wellbeing. Her research examines how education practices, such as standardised testing, shape the imaginable futures of young people.

Rovis-Hermann has contributed to peer-reviewed publications, including co-authoring 'A Testing Load: Investigating Test Mode Effects on Test Score, Cognitive Load and Scratch Paper Use with Secondary School Students' published in 2023 in Educational Psychology Review. This study reconciles findings on testing mode effects by incorporating control conditions and accounting for scratch paper use among secondary students. She has presented at conferences such as the West Australian Institute for Educational Research (WAIER) forums, including 'Performativity, identity and ATAR: How are upper secondary students’ subjectivities produced?' in 2019. In teaching, she has served as Unit Coordinator and Lecturer for courses like EDN221 Developing Literacy and PSY392. Rovis-Hermann holds committee roles, including Deputy Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC). She supervises higher degree by research students and contributes to public discourse through co-authored articles, such as 'Does it matter if students do tests on computers or on paper?' in 2024, and events like 'Windows of Success: Redefining Achievement Together'. Additionally, she lectures in English, Literacy, and Postgraduate Studies within the School of Education.