1. I co-organise the NPD User Group annual conferences
Dr George Leckie, Reader in Social Statistics, Centre for Multilevel Modelling and Graduate School of Education, University Bristol
I have extensively analysed the National Pupil Database, a Department for Education longitudinal administrative census of all students in English schools
Contains Key Stage test scores, GCSE and A-level exam results, student and school socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and locations
Underlies league tables, Ofsted reports, EEF trials, commercial data products
Widely used by researchers (e.g. school funding, grammars, free school meals)
My research critiques the official league tables and explores competing approaches for making school comparisons and visualising uncertainty
I co-organise the NPD User Group annual conferences
I am also advising HEFCE on their ‘learning gains’ methodology for HE and am advising the World Bank and Bulgarian Ministry of Education on their value- added multilevel models for their new school performance monitoring system
Making data work for everyone