Lingyan Li (lilingyan@bnu.edu.cn) is an associate professor of education evaluation at Beijing Normal University’s School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and an assistant director of National Assessment Center for Education Quality, Ministry of Education, China (NAEQ). Her research interests focus on the school development policies, looking specifically at how principals' leadership affect the quality of school managements, and how reforms and school-based self-evaluations affect students’ living situation in schools. She also studies the relationship between schools and national, provincial and local policies, for example looking at how the centralization or decentralization system affects the level and distribution of managing quality across schools, and how reforms affect principals' decisions and effectiveness.