Bio: Barnabas is currently Student Achievement Officer, Research, Evaluation and Data Management (RED team), in the Research, Evaluation and Capacity Building Branch (RECBB), Student Achievement Division, Ontario Ministry of Education. He was until recently Manager, Data Analytics at the Education Statistics and Analysis Branch (ESAB), Ministry of Education and formerly Senior Research Coordinator in The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat (LNS). In these positions he has been responsible for using data to evaluate effectiveness of ministry programs, leading data analysis to provide report and advice to senior leadership for policy and program development and for priority setting and budgetary allocations. He has also been responsible for developing protocols for requesting bid proposals, evaluating such bids and recommending bidders for government research, evaluation or knowledge mobilization contracts. In all of these he has relied on extensive use of data and analytics in a variety of different ways.

He was a former Principal Lecturer of Research, Measurement & Evaluation and Statistics courses at both undergraduate and graduate studies in Education. He started his career in education as high school mathematics teacher at which time he also became a mathematics examiner for the West African Examination Council (WAEC)-a body that conducts exit and certificate examinations such as General Certificate in Education (GCE) and West African School Certificate (WASC) exams for students at the end of high school in the English speaking West African nations.

Barnabas holds a Ph.D. degree of the University of Toronto focusing on measurement and evaluation, statistics and psychometrics and has presented at many academic conferences including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) and several overseas conferences. He has articles in refereed journals, monographs, book chapters and is the author of Educational Assessment: Principles and Practice.

Outside work and the academia, he is a community leader, a Christian evangelist and an advocate for social justice and educational empowerment of marginalized/less privilege youth in our community. He is a married father of three adults and one teenager.