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How we assess mathematics degrees: the summative assessment diet a decade on (2021)
Journal Article
Iannone, P., & Simpson, A. (2022). How we assess mathematics degrees: the summative assessment diet a decade on. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 41(1), 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrab007

Two previous studies mapping university mathematics students’ summative assessment diet in the UK revealed a clear picture. In general there was a dominance of closed book examinations with a strong relationship to departmental league table position.... Read More about How we assess mathematics degrees: the summative assessment diet a decade on.

Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions” (2021)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. (2023). Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions”. Educational Researcher, 52(3), 180-182. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x20985448

A recent article calculates new benchmarks from the distribution of effect sizes in a dataset, without accounting for signed values or sampling appropriately. In addition, the focus-narrowing approach it takes does little to address the issues highli... Read More about Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions”.