Completed research projects
Completed research projects carried out by OUCEA are listed below.
Further information on individual projects is available by clicking on the project title in the left-hand menu.
2016
Definitions of examination standards in public examinations internationally (funder: AQA)
2015
Marking evidence review (funder: Education Endowment Foundation, £33,541)
Improving existing models for predicting task difficulty (funder: Pearson Inc, £46,667)
PISA 2018 framework (funder: ETS)
Workshop: Bayesian statistics and analysis of international large-scale assessment data in the R environment (funder: Teaching Excellence Award, University of Oxford, £4,050)
2014
Investigation into the predictability of the Irish Leaving Certificate examinations (funder: State Examinations Commission, Ireland, £90,570)
Assessment and learning: State of the field review (funder: Research Council of Norway, £55,303)
Ethnicity gaps in educational attainment (funder: John Fell OUP Research Fund, £7,463)
2013
Assessment policy processes in Norway (funder: OECD, £44,427)
Rater effects: the use of multilevel modelling to monitor raters (funder: Pearson UK, £29,228)
Predictability of examination questions (funder: Pearson UK, £2,000)
Research evidence relating to proposals for reform of the GCSE (funder: Pearson UK, £6,385)
2012
Marker effects and examination reliability (funder: Ofqual, £40,350)
2011
Policy effects of PISA (funder: Pearson UK, £15,300)
