Researchers

Quantitative Skills Education

Teaching Performance Evaluation

Teaching Design Effects

Quantitative Research in Learning and Teaching

Quantitative Research Pedagogy

Digital Learning Analytics

Our eight complementary approaches to quantitative higher education research

Institutional Metric Evaluation

Access and Inequality

Student Experience Measurement

How metrics shape incentives & HE decision-making

Quantitative research that evaluates how institutional metrics are constructed, interpreted and used in higher education management:

• Analyses how metrics shape incentives and behaviour
• Examines contractual, esteem, and organisational consequences
• Studies metric-driven decision-making and risk
• Evaluates unintended effects of quantified governance

Teaching-Only Contracts & Uncertainty

What edtech reveals & conceals about learning

Quantitative research on how digital tools shape learning behaviour and evidence use.

• Analysis of online engagement, access and usage patterns
• Examination of discovery, search behaviour and surface learning
• Evaluation of digital materials in supporting quantitative learning
• Critical assessment of what digital traces do and do not capture

Surface Learning

Quantifying who benefits, who is excluded, and why

Quantitative analysis of unequal access, opportunity, and experience in higher education:

• Measurement of participation, progression and experience gaps
• Analysis of institutional, contractual and structural determinants
• Examination of heterogeneous outcomes across student groups
• Identification of persistent and cumulative disadvantage

Graduate Views on Access

Understanding how quantitative capability is built

Research on how quantitative skills are taught, learned, and developed in higher education.

• Identification and measurement of quantitative skills gaps
• Evaluation of alternative approaches to methods and econometrics teaching
• Use of structured replication as a learning and assessment strategy
• Analysis of progression and confidence in quantitative reasoning

Solving the Quants Skills Gap

Estimating how teaching design shapes learning

Estimating how changes in teaching design and delivery affect learning and engagement:

• Quantitative comparison of alternative teaching formats
• Estimation of intervention and design effects on learning outcomes
• Attention to delivery mode, timing, and institutional context
• Analysis of heterogeneous and uneven responses to design change

Fipping the Classroom

Pedagogical Inertia

Turning lived experience into evidence

Research that develops and tests ways of measuring how students rate higher education:

• Operationalisation of latent constructs such as satisfaction, value, and engagement
• Use of composite indicators and alternative aggregation strategies
• Assessment of measurement uncertainty, bias, and group comparability
• Interpretation of what experience measures can and cannot validly represent

Student Dissatisfaction in Higher Education

It's just not worth a damn!

Evaluating teaching without mistaking metrics for quality

Using quantitative data to evaluate teaching quality, performance, and institutional outcomes:

• Tests whether teaching evaluations measure what they claim to measure
• Examines bias, noise, and construct validity in teaching metrics
• Compares evaluation outcomes across teaching contexts
• Assesses reliability and interpretability of performance measures

Performance Evaluation in Teaching

Adapting quant. methods for education research

Research focused on developing, adapting, and critically applying quantitative methods to the specific challenges of higher education research.

• Adapting econometric and statistical methods to education data
• Addressing measurement complexity, non-linearity, and uncertainty
• Developing approaches suited to institutional and survey datasets
• Critically assessing methodological assumptions in education contexts

Solving the Quants Skills Gap