Kayo Matsushita Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University Dr. Kayo Matsushita has been a professor of the Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education and the Graduate School of Education at Kyoto University since 2004. She received her Ph.D. in education from Kyoto University. After having completed the doctoral program in Education at Kyoto University, she served as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, Kyoto University and an associate professor at the Faculty of Education, Gunma University. She has been conducting research and development of teaching and learning in higher education as well as school education. Her present research focus is learning assessment, especially in the form of performance assessment. She is an author of Performance Assessment (in Japanese, Nipponhyojun, 2007), an editor of Does New Concept of Ability Change Education: Gakuryoku, Literacy, and Competency? (in Japanese, Minerva Shobo, 2010), and a co-editor of Building Networks in Higher Education: Towards the Future of Faculty Development (Maruzen Planet, 2011), Transition from High School & University to Work (in Japanese, Nakanishiya, 2014), and Assessment of Active Learning (in Japanese, Toshindo, 2016). She is the chief editor and a council member of the Japan Association for College and University Education, a council member of the Japanese Educational Research Association, the Japanese Society for Curriculum Studies and the National Association for the Study of Educational Methods, and a member of the Science Council of Japan.