Research
Recent reports
Selected papers since 2000
| Lucy Billington | Anne Pinot de Moira |
| Suzanne Chamberlain | Neil Stringer |
| Anthony Daly | Martin Taylor |
| Diana Fowles | Rachel Taylor |
| Qingping He | Chris Wheadon |
| Ben Jones | Claire Whitehouse |
| Michelle Meadows |
Lucy Billington – Research Officer
Billington, L. (2007). The right attitude for marking? Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, London.
Meadows, M., and Billington, L. (2007). Selecting reliable markers - some studies in UK public examinations. Workshop presented at the Institute of Educational Assessors National Conference, London.
Billington, L., Fearnley, A., and Meadows, M. (2006). Double marking: are two marks better than one? Does the targeted pairing of markers increase the effectiveness of double marking. Poster presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Warwick.
Fearnley, A., and Billington, L. (2006). An Investigation of Targeted Double marking for GCSE and GCE. AQA Internal Report RPA_06_AJF_WP_024.
Taylor, M., and Billington, L. (2006). Teacher Moderation Systems. AQA Internal Report RPA_06_MT_WP_023.
Dr Suzanne Chamberlain – Senior Research Officer
Chamberlain, S. (2008). Sleeping in or selecting out? Candidates' absences from GCSE examinations. Research in Education, 71(1), 53-66.
Chamberlain, S. (2006). The cost of absence: the performance of candidates with partial absence in GCSE and GCE examinations. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Warwick
Chamberlain, S., and Lowther, R. (2006). GCSE English Language and Literature Teacher Survey. AQA Internal Report RPA_06_SC_TR_016.
Chamberlain, S., Freeman, A., Oldham, J., Sanders, D., Hudson, N., and Ricketts, C. (2006). Innovative learning: Employing medical students to write formative assessments. Medical Teacher, 28(7), 656-659
Chamberlain, S. (2005). Support Materials for Teachers: A survey of Teachers' needs and preferences. AQA Internal Report RPA_05_SC_P_066.
Oldham, J., Freeman, A., Chamberlain, S., and Ricketts, C. (2005). Formative Assessment for Progress Tests of Medical Knowledge. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Assessment, Hong Kong
Chamberlain, S., and Searle, J. (2005). Assessing suitability for a PBL curriculum: evaluating a new student selection instrument. Medical Education, 39, 250-257.
McHarg, J., Bradley, P., Chamberlain, S., Ricketts, C., and McLachlan, J. (2005). Assessment of Progress Tests. Medical Education, 39, 221-227.
Rees, C., Shepherd, M., and Chamberlain, S. (2005). The utility of reflective portfolios as a method of assessing first year medical students' personal and professional development (PPD). Reflective Practice, 6 (1), 3-14.
Ricketts, C., Price, J., and Chamberlain, S. (2005). Interactive online assessment training for busy practitioners. Medical Education, 39, 525-526.
Payne, G., Williams, M., and Chamberlain, S. (2005). Methodological Pluralism, British Sociology and the Evidence Based State: A Reply to May. Sociology, 39, 529-533.
Chamberlain, S. (2004). New school, new assessments: An overview of assessment research at Peninsula Medical School . Paper presented at the Train the Trainer meeting, Hong Kong Consortium for the Sharing of Medical Assessment Banks, Hong Kong.
Payne, G., Williams, M., and Chamberlain, S. (2004). Methodological Pluralism in British Sociology. Sociology, 38(1), 153-163.
Chamberlain, S. (2003). New School, New Assessment: A psychometric analysis of the first year performance of the Progress Test at Peninsula Medical School, UK. Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Medical Education Annual Conference, Edinburgh.
Chamberlain, S. (2003). Progress Testing at Peninsula Medical School. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Consortium for the Sharing of Medical Assessment Banks, Ottawa.
Read Suzanne's biographical note.
Dr Anthony Daly – Senior Research Officer
Daly, A. (2007). Effects of assessment type, learner motivation, and learning approach on performance (Unpublished research report, RPA_07_AD_RP_040). Guildford, UK: Assessment & Qualifications Alliance.
Daly, A. (2007). Law and psychology admissions tutors' perspectives of how A-levels prepare students for university study (Unpublished research report, RPA_07_AD_RP_057). Guildford, UK: Assessment & Qualifications Alliance.
Read Anthony's biographical note.
Diana Fowles – Senior Research Officer
Fowles, D.E. (2006). How well does marking in GCSE English transfer to marking using CMI+ with annotation? AQA Internal Report RPA_06_DEF_RP_047.
Fowles, D.E. (2006). How reliable is the marking in GCSE English? AQA Internal Report RPA_06_DEF_RP_020 and RPA_06_DEF_RP_048.
Fowles, D.E., and Adams, C.R. (2005). How does assessment differ when e-marking replaces paper-based marking? Paper presented at the International Association for Educational Assessment Conference, Nigeria, accessed at www.iaea.info/abstract_files/paper_051218101528.doc.
Fowles, D.E. (2005). Literature review on effects on assessment of e-marking. AQA Internal Report RPA_05_DEF_RP_009.
Fowles, D.E. (2005). A further trial of a bookmark approach to grading objective tests. AQA Internal Report RPA_05_DEF_RP_007 and RPA_05_DEF_RP_090.
Fowles, D.E. (2004). A trial of a bookmark approach to grading and comparisons with the Angoff Method. AQA Internal Report RC259.
Fowles, D.E. (2003). Standard setting: a review of some recent approaches to setting boundary marks on the basis of examiner judgement. AQA Internal Report RC207.
Fowles, D. E. (2003). The Way Ahead: New Technologies in Examining. Ch 8 in Setting the Standard. A century of public examining by AQA and its parent boards, AQA (2003).
Read Diana's biographical note
Qingping He – Senior Research Officer
He, Q., and Tymms, P.B. (2006). Item analysis of the Chinese MidYIS baseline test. CEM Centre, Durham University.
Wheadon, C., and He, Q. (2006). An investigation of the response time for maths items in a computer adaptive test. Proceedings of the 10th International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference, Loughborough University, 455-466.
He, Q., and Tymms, P.B. (2005). A computer-assisted test design and diagnosis system for use by classroom teachers. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 21, 419-429.
He, Q., and Brna, P. (2005). The development of a Fraction Testing and Tutoring System. Proceedings of the 9th International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference, Loughborough University, 275-285.
He, Q., and Tymms, P.B. (2004). The development of a computer assisted design, analysis and testing system for analysing students' performance. Proceedings of the 8th International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference, Loughborough University, 165-175.
He, Q., Fitz-Gibbon, T., Hutton, D., and Forster, N. (2003). A baseline report on MidYIS Project (Academic Year 2001/2002) for Yan Chai Group, Hong Kong. CEM Centre, Durham University.
Read Qingping's biographical note
Ben Jones – Principal Manager Examination Standards
Jones, B.E., Meadows, M., and Bayatti, M. (2004). Report of the inter-Awarding Body comparability study of GCSE Religious Studies (Full Course), Summer 2003. AQA Internal Report RC277.
Jones, B.E. (2004). Inter-subject standards: an investigation into the level of agreement between qualitative and quantitative evidence in four apparently discrepant subjects. Paper presented at the International Association for Educational Assessment, Philadelphia.
Jones, B.E. (2003). Subject Pairs over time: a review of the evidence and the issues. Paper presented at the International Association for Educational Assessment, Manchester.
Jones, B.E. (2002). Statistical study of the differences in candidates' results between first and second attempts in some GCE AS units. AQA Internal Report RC193.
Jones, B.E. (2002). Equality, Validity and Bias in Public Examinations. Paper presented at the Association of Commonwealth Examinations and Accreditation Bodies, Malta.
Jones, B.E. (2000). Comparability between examinations: a review of some of the issues. Paper presented at the Association of Commonwealth Examinations and Accreditation Bodies, Mauritius.
Michelle Meadows – Head of Research
Meadows, M.L., and Baird, J. (in press). What is the right mark? Respecting other examiners' views in a community of practice. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice.
Meadows, M.L., and Wheadon, C. B. (2007). Selecting the conscientious marker – a study of marking reliability in GCSE English. Paper presented at the conference of the International Association for Educational Assessment, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Meadows, M.L., and Billington, L. (2007). Can we predict who will be a reliable marker? Workshop presented at the conference of the Institute for Educational Assessors, London, UK.
Meadows, M.L., and Baird, J. (2006). Selecting reliable markers – some studies in UK public examinations. Workshop presented at the conference of the Association for Educational Assessment, Naples, Italy.
Meadows, M. L. (2006). Can we predict who will be a reliable marker? Paper presented at the conference of the International Association for Educational Assessment, Singapore.
Meadows, M.L., and Baird, J. (2006). What is the right mark? Respecting other Examiners' views in a community of practice. AQA Internal Report RPA_06_MM_RP_019.
Meadows, M.L. (2006). Can we predict who will be a reliable marker? AQA Internal Report RPA_06_MM_RP_018.
Meadows, M.L., and Billington, L. (2005). A Review of the Literature on Marking Reliability. AQA Internal Report RPA_05_MM_RP_05.
Meadows, M. L., and Baird, J. (2005). What is the right mark? Respecting other examiners' views in a community of practice. Poster session presented at the conference of the Association for Educational Assessment, Dublin, Ireland.
Meadows, M.L. (2004). A survey of reasons for decline of invitation to examine. AQA Internal Report RC257.
Meadows, M.L. (2004). Measures of Examiner job satisfaction as predictors of intention to continue examining. AQA Internal Report RC256.
Jones, B.E., Meadows, M.L., and Al-Bayatti, M. (2004). Report of the Inter-Awarding Body Comparability Study of GCSE Religious Studies (Full Course), Summer 2003. AQA Internal Report RC277.
Read Michelle's biographical note
Anne Pinot de Moira – Senior Research Officer
Baird, J., Ebner, K., and Pinot De Moira, A. (2003). Student choice of study in Curriculum 2000. AQA Internal Report RC237.
Pinot De Moira, A. (2002). Statistical robustness in Comparability Studies: the choice of model and data selection. AQA Internal Report RC172.
Pinot De Moira, A. (2001). Explained variance in logistic Multilevel Models. AQA Internal Report RC119.
Pinot De Moira, A., Massey, C., Baird, J., and Morrissy, M. (2001). Marking consistency over time. Research in Education, 67, 79-87.
Neil Stringer – Senior Research Officer
Stringer, N. (2008). Aptitude tests versus school exams as selection tools for higher education and the case for assessing educational achievement in context. Research Papers in Education, 23(1), 53 - 68.
Martin Taylor – Senior Research Officer
Taylor, M., Pritchard, J., and Gray, E. (2006). Grading the specialised diploma (a contribution from AQA, CGLI, Edexcel and OCR). Inter-Awarding Body Internal Report.
Read Martin's biographical note
Rachel Taylor – Research Assistant
Taylor, R. (2007). A qualitative exploration of key stakeholders' perceptions and opinions of awarding body marking procedures. AQA Internal Report RPA_07_RT_RP_034.
Taylor, R. (2007). The impact of e-marking on enquiries after results. AQA Internal Report RPA_07_RT_TR_050.
Read Rachel's biographical note
Chris Wheadon – Principal Research Manager
Wheadon, C. (2007). Barriers to Achievement: Scientific Literacy or just Literacy? Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, London.
Wheadon, C. (2007). Fair competition or certification of achievement? Paper presented at the International Association for Educational Assessment Conference, Baku.
Claire Whitehouse – Senior Research Officer
Baird, J., Whitehouse, C., Béguin, A., and Eggen, T. (2006). Guarantees for equity of national exams? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Educational Assessment, Naples.
Whitehouse, C. (2006). Putting the e into examinations: a questionnaire survey of the views of students and teachers of the computerisation of an awarding body's examinations. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Warwick.
Whitehouse, C. (2005). Putting the E into examinations. AQA Internal Report RPA_05_CW_TR_073.