Research Group
Quantitative Methods in Education Group
We bring together researchers to advance quantitative methods in education research, policymaking, and professional practice.
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2026
- Trace data of secondary students and linguistic analysis to predict learner performance in a multi-text writing taskDOI: 10.1002/jcal.70331
- Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciencesDOI: 10.1080/13645579.2025.2478927
- Using technology for questioning evidence in pre-service teacher educationDOI: 10.1007/s44322-025-00045-w
- The role of media in PISA 2022 mathematics education policymaking in Anglophone countriesDOI: 10.1080/14794802.2025.2586569
- Being HumanDOI: 10.1108/978-1-83549-382-3
- Novice principals as multi-level change agents: readiness to leadDOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88898-4_1-1
- Cross-cultural differential item functioning in the PISA 2022 creative thinking assessmentDOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2026.102210
- Migrant population's linguistic identities in motion: a new mobilities frameworkDOI: 10.1080/15348458.2026.2619012
- Pursuing social justice through education policy programmesDOI: 10.1080/02680939.2025.2610835
- Parents as ‘data bridges’: platformisation and emerging educational inequities in early childhood education and careDOI: 10.1177/14639491261466291
- 16–19 Level 1 English and Maths Qualifications: Government Consultation ResponseDOI: 10.5258/SOTON/PP0183
- Capturing and sharing know-how through visual process representations: a human-centred approach to teacher workflowsDOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2026.2636694
- Self-regulated learning in essay writing: consistency of strategies and impact on outcomesDOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.14228
- ICT knowledge absorptive capacity: a critical factor for technology integration in schoolsDOI: 10.1111/bjet.13608
- Scalable LLM-based coding of dialogue in healthcare simulation: balancing coding performance, processing time, and environmental impactDOI: 10.1145/3774398.3811613
- Towards a unified understanding of educational equity: integrating narratives of access and outcomeDOI: 10.1080/09243453.2026.2717639
- Are all risks equal? Understanding the differential mechanism linking early environmental risk and obesityDOI: 10.1136/bmjment-2025-302211
- Mind the gap: exploring social inequalities in alcohol consumption using biomarker dataDOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26651-7
- Co-creating a community-focused educational knowledge graph for trustworthy language knowledge: a case study on YanyuwaDOI: 10.1109/TLT.2026.3694962
- How do critical evaluations of generative AI outputs shape teacher agency? A mixed-methods comparative analysisDOI: 10.1080/10447318.2026.2643354
- How are parenting programmes implemented in practice? A mixed-methods study in EnglandDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7029013
2025
- Building digital cube houses to improve mental rotation skillsDOI: 10.1080/0020739x.2024.2441889
- Tackling misinformation: where do educationalists need to target their efforts?DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2025.2528739
- Education, prospection and social-networks: surveying ideas-engagement amongst 7,000 respondents across seven European countriesDOI: 10.1108/QEA-11-2024-0128
- Making better decisions, eschewing conspiracy, populism and science denialDOI: 10.3390/info16030248
- The inside out of journal editing and peer review: a collective reflectionDOI: 10.1002/rev3.70121
- Impacts of school context and formal teaching on entrepreneurial attributesDOI: 10.1080/03055698.2025.2540438
- Towards a social capital-based heuristic framework for improved policymaking in education
- Adult-child pedagogical interactions in the home and in preschoolDOI: 10.1080/03004430.2025.2484227
- Reciprocal relationships between adolescent mental health difficulties and alcohol consumptionDOI: 10.1007/s00787-025-02644-6
- Accessibility in austerity: formulating strategies for accessibility researchDOI: 10.14236/ewic/bcshci2025.4
- Straight from the teacher's mouth: the value of own-perspective gaze-elicited reflection on teachingDOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102170
- The use and impact of digital interventions on mental health and wellbeingDOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108755
- Secondary school students' learning persistence in human-AI hybrid learningDOI: 10.1111/bjet.13563
- Examining how generative AI tools benefit and challenge teachers' research-informed practiceDOI: 10.1080/02619768.2025.2518193
- University of Southampton Reproducible and Transparent Practices MapDOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1266
- Measuring reflective inquiry in professional learning networks: a conceptual frameworkDOI: 10.3390/educsci15030333
2024
- Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?DOI: 10.1002/berj.4025
- Testing for sequential bias in school inspectionsDOI: 10.1080/03054985.2024.2410270
- English-medium instruction as an internationalisation strategy at a secondary school in Hong KongDOI: 10.1186/s40862-024-00295-9
- Enactment of English-medium instruction in under-resourced educational contextsDOI: 10.1016/j.system.2024.103223
- Outsourcing of Teaching English to Speakers of Other LanguagesDOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-8573-5
- Failing interventions to harness English fever infiltrating early childhood language education in South KoreaDOI: 10.1080/14664208.2024.2368371
- A department-wide transition to computer-aided assessment using STACKDOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00251-5
- Selection effects in education and implications for educational opportunityDOI: 10.1080/09243453.2024.2385934
- Representativeness and diversity within the teaching profession in England, 2010–2020DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103067
- Student approaches to generating mathematical examplesDOI: 10.1007/s10649-024-10361-1
- Digital accessibility education in context: expert perspectives on building inclusive workplacesDOI: 10.1145/3649508
- Editorial: advancing digital accessibility in academic and workplace educationDOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2024.1419986
- Is there cognitive engagement when they comment ‘Haha’: a dynamic analysisDOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78269-5_9
- An agent-based model of school tracking, accountability, and segregationDOI: 10.1080/17477778.2024.2326138
- Why do women develop lower levels of political interest?DOI: 10.1057/s41269-024-00349-3
- Socio-economic differences in schoolwork during COVID-19DOI: 10.1332/17579597Y2024D000000012
2023
- Are some school inspectors more lenient than others?DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2023.2240318
- How useful are Ofsted inspection judgements for informing secondary school choice?DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2023.2169813
- Using social network analysis to gain insight into social creativity within mathematics teacher professional developmentDOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100497
- Master Mathematics TeachersDOI: 10.4324/9781003127925
- Using EDA measures to detect emotional expressions during family science engagementDOI: 10.1080/1743727x.2023.2289539
- The influence of PISA on education policy formulationDOI: 10.1177/14782103231192741
- Does public consultation affect policy formulation? Negotiation strategies in Hong Kong's language-in-education policyDOI: 10.1080/02680939.2023.2269373
- How do students' roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative performance?DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101423
- Storytelling with networks: realising the explanatory potential of network methodology in education researchDOI: 10.1177/16094069231189369
- The impact of support networks on the education and development of pre-service teachersDOI: 10.5040/9781350336452.ch-4
- Measuring discovery through writing. In Horowitz, R. (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing (2nd ed.)DOI: 10.4324/9780429437991
- Do informal networks become formalised over time?DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09485-7
- Do pupils at research-informed schools actually perform better?DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.1011241
- Adolescent delinquency following co-occurring childhood head injuries and conduct problem symptomsDOI: 10.1007/s00787-023-02335-0
- The bidirectional relationship between head injuries and conduct problemsDOI: 10.1007/s00787-023-02175-y
- Impacts of secondary school context and formal teaching on entrepreneurial attributes
- Comparative judgement in education researchDOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2023.2242273
- Workplace approaches to teaching digital accessibility: establishing a research agendaDOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2023.1155864
- Access to online learning: machine learning analysis from a social justice perspectiveDOI: 10.1007/s10639-022-11280-5
- Handling demanding situations: associations between teachers' interpersonal behaviour and gazeDOI: 10.1080/00220973.2023.2249837
- Parental schooling, educational attainment, skills, and earningsDOI: 10.1093/sf/soad144
- Comparative judgement for experimental philosophyDOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2263036
2022
- Country and school family composition effects on mathematics achievement: an international analysisDOI: 10.1080/09243453.2021.2012207
- Are instructional practices different between East and West?DOI: 10.1177/27527263221109752
- The influence of school climate and achievement on bullyingDOI: 10.1080/00131881.2021.1992294
- Rational numbers and proportional reasoning in Chinese primary schoolsDOI: 10.1177/27527263221143802
- The role of analytical variability in secondary data replicationsDOI: 10.1080/13803611.2021.2022319
- Exploring effective approaches for stimulating ideas-engagement amongst adults in EnglandDOI: 10.35241/emeraldopenres.14914.1
- Achieving the ideas-informed societyDOI: 10.35241/emeraldopenres.14487.1
- Decolonisation of curriculum: the case of language education policy in NepalDOI: 10.14324/lre.20.1.13
- The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schoolsDOI: 10.1080/02680939.2022.2037721
- Constructing theoretically informed measures of pause durationDOI: 10.1007/s11145-022-10284-4
- The end of the line? A quantitative analysis of two decades of competitive assessment and research funding in UK higher educationDOI: 10.1080/02602938.2022.2120961
- A collaboratively-derived research agenda for e-assessment in undergraduate mathematicsDOI: 10.1007/s40753-022-00189-6
- Researching pedagogy in digital accessibility educationDOI: 10.1145/3582298.3582300
- Technology use for teacher professional development in low- and middle-income countriesDOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100080
- Accelerating online learning: machine learning insightsDOI: 10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100106
- Students' beliefs on empirical arguments and mathematical proofDOI: 10.1080/0020739X.2022.2086082
- Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early yearsDOI: 10.1080/03054985.2022.2125371
2021
- Does revision process differ across language of writing and language proficiency?DOI: 10.1558/wap.38067
- Demonstrating the potential of text mining for analysing school inspection reportsDOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2020.1819228
- Targeting data collection in games-based assessmentDOI: 10.1016/j.caeo.2021.100054
- English fever: educational policies in globalised Korea, 1981–2018DOI: 10.1080/0046760x.2020.1858192
- Discourses shaping the language-in-education policy and foreign language education in Hong KongDOI: 10.1080/14664208.2021.2013063
- What do mathematicians mean by proof? A comparative judgement studyDOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2020.100824
- The role of authorial context in mathematicians' evaluations of proofDOI: 10.1080/0020739X.2021.1966531
- Assessing proof reading comprehension using summariesDOI: 10.1007/s40753-021-00157-6
- Investigating the reliability and validity of the Toddler Home Learning Environment scaleDOI: 10.3389/feduc.2021.581005
- Negative capital: a generalised definition and application to educational effectiveness and equityDOI: 10.1080/03054985.2020.1835626
- Dynamic Management and Leadership in Education
- A tale of two algorithmsDOI: 10.1002/berj.3705
- Teaching computational statistics through active learning
- Teaching quantitative design methods through exposition
- Keeping track of expert teachers: comparing the affordances of think-aloud and mobile eye-trackingDOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101563
- Students in sight: using mobile eye-tracking to investigate mathematics teacher noticingDOI: 10.14786/flr.v9i4.965
- Learning inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemicDOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P0118
- The effect of computerisation on the wage share in United Kingdom workplacesDOI: 10.1177/10353046211048750
2020
- Promoting pre-service teachers' engagement in an online professional learning communityDOI: 10.1108/jpcc-10-2019-0027
- School-to-school collaboration in England: a configurative review of the empirical evidenceDOI: 10.1002/rev3.3248
- The development of communication networks of pre-service teachers on school-led and university-led programmesDOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101542
- The Networked School LeaderDOI: 10.1108/9781838677190
- Is distributed leadership an effective approach for mobilising professional capital across professional learning networks?DOI: 10.1108/jpcc-02-2020-0010
- Can models of distributed leadership be used to mobilise networked generated innovation in schools?DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2020.103101
- Facilitating collaborative reflective inquiry amongst teachersDOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101695
- Language-in-education policy formation through a consultation-based system: the case of Hong KongDOI: 10.18823/asiatefl.2020.17.2.10.463
- Policymakers' agency and the structure: the case of medium of instruction policy in Hong KongDOI: 10.1080/14664208.2020.1741235
- Comparative judgement, proof summaries and proof comprehensionDOI: 10.1007/s10649-020-09984-x
- International perspectives in educational effectiveness researchDOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44810-3
- The contribution of multilevel structural equation modelling to contemporary educational effectiveness researchDOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2020.1796066
- Airbag moderationDOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2020.1735334
- Teaching accessibility in computer science and related disciplinesDOI: 10.7565/ssp.2020.2811
- Accessible at last? What do new European digital accessibility laws mean for disabled people?DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2020.1717446
- World-wide barriers and enablers to achieving evidence-informed practice in educationDOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-00587-8
- Looking to relate: teacher gaze and culture in student-rated teacher interpersonal behaviourDOI: 10.1007/s11218-019-09541-2
- To leave or not to leave? Understanding the support for UK membership in the European UnionDOI: 10.1177/1043463120945268
- The Covid-19 pandemic and the dissolution of the university campusDOI: 10.1108/jpcc-06-2020-0032
- Education research and educational practice: the qualities of a close relationshipDOI: 10.1002/berj.3626
- International postgraduate students' labour mobility in the United KingdomDOI: 10.1002/psp.2381
2019
- Using theories of action approach to measure impact: a case study from OntarioDOI: 10.1007/s10833-019-09353-3
- Exploring the current context for professional learning networksDOI: 10.12688/emeraldopenres.12904.2
- The three roles of school leaders in maximising the impact of professional learning networksDOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101516
- School/university partnerships: an English perspectiveDOI: 10.31244/dds.2019.01.03
- Bounded decision-making, teachers' reflection and organisational learningDOI: 10.1002/berj.3551
- Outsourcing education services: a discursive institutionalism analysisDOI: 10.1080/03057925.2019.1614431
- Aligning keystrokes with cognitive processes in writing. In Lindgren, E. & Sullivan, K. (Eds.), Observing WritingDOI: 10.1163/9789004392526_015
- Methodological advances in investigating L2 writing processesDOI: 10.1017/S0272263119000366
- Understanding the progress in mathematics of Chinese adolescents: signposts from international assessmentsDOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2019.101224
- Investigating a Singapore-based mathematics textbook and teaching approach in EnglandDOI: 10.3389/feduc.2019.00037
- Relationships between families' use of Sure Start Children's Centres and preschool behavioural developmentDOI: 10.1080/03054985.2018.1551195
- An upstream evaluation of the prototype coaching e-books for Oxford Reading Buddy
- Island voices: choice, equity and opportunity in Jersey schoolsDOI: 10.1017/S0305764618000397
- A conceptual-empirical typology of social science research methods pedagogyDOI: 10.1080/02671522.2019.1601756
- Student perspectives on learning research methods in the social sciencesDOI: 10.1080/13562517.2019.1592150
- Teaching digital methodsDOI: 10.7764/disena.14.12-37
- Efficacy, explore, and exchange: studies on the social side of teacher educationDOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101518
- Social inequalities in educational attainment: the changing impact of parents' social classDOI: 10.1332/175795919×15468755933380
- Socioeconomic inequality and student outcomes in ItalyDOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9863-6_5
- A systematic review of the evidence base for professional learning in early years educationDOI: 10.1002/rev3.3178
2018
- Discovery through writing: relationships with writing processes and text qualityDOI: 10.1080/07370008.2018.1456431
- Automated generation of 'good enough' transcripts as a first step to transcription of audio-recorded dataDOI: 10.1177/2059799118790743
- Mapping changes in support: a longitudinal analysis of networks of pre-service mathematics and science teachersDOI: 10.1080/03054985.2017.1400427
- Networks for Learning: Effective Collaboration for Teacher, School and System ImprovementDOI: 10.4324/9781315276649
- Going for broke: a multiple-case study of brokerage in educationDOI: 10.1177/2332858418769297
- Lost in translation? Can the use of theories of action be effective in encouraging teachers to engage in collaborative enquiry?DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2018.03.007
- Does a theory of action approach help teachers engage in evidence-informed practice?DOI: 10.18546/rfa.02.2.12
- Exploring the impact of social relationships on teachers' use of researchDOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2018.04.003
- How effective is the research and development ecosystem for England's schools?DOI: 10.18546/lre.16.1.12
- A heuristic model for tailoring teacher development to educational reforms: focus on EMI teachingDOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2018.04.013
- Utilising social network analysis to identify the structural features of teachers' knowledge and resource-sharing networksDOI: 10.30827/profesorado.v22i2.7718
- The work of writing: raiding the inarticulateDOI: 10.1080/00461520.2018.1505515
- Exposure to violence, teacher support, and school delay amongst adolescents in South AfricaDOI: 10.1111/bjep.12212
- A new composite measure of ethnic diversity: investigating the controversy over school ethnic diversity and school outcomes in EnglandDOI: 10.1002/berj.3482
- Towards a philosophy of equity in educational effectiveness researchDOI: 10.1080/09243453.2018.1470990
- Methods that teach: developing pedagogic research methods, developing pedagogyDOI: 10.1080/1743727x.2018.1427057
- Scanpath analysis of expertise and culture in teacher gaze in real-world classroomsDOI: 10.1007/s11251-017-9445-x
- The effects of post-compulsory education and training systems on literacy and numeracy skillsDOI: 10.1111/ejed.12268
- Counting numbers of Children's Centres in the most disadvantaged areas in England
2017 and Earlier
- Evidence-informed teaching: an evaluation of progress in England
- Reactivity effects in video-based classroom researchDOI: 10.1007/s11618-017-0729-3

