EDUCATION
Ph D, University of London Institute of Education, 1999
M Sc (Statistics), London School of Economics, 1971
B Sc (Mathematical Science) University of Edinburgh, 1967
LANGUAGES
French. Spoken: reasonable. Written: basic
Spanish. Basic
German. Basic
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS:
As Chief Statistician, I was responsible for the statistical and psychometric procedures used by NFER, the organisation with the largest educational research turnover in the UK. I have worked on the design and analysis of a large number of national and international studies of educational attainment. Examples of my experience are:
- The design and analysis of a number of large national and international studies, e.g. the 1986 Assessment of Performance Unit Language survey, the England and Wales sample for the 1990 International Association for the Assessment of Education Progress Mathematics and Science survey.
- I was in charge of the statistical analysis of the National Child Development study (1958 Cohort), and was responsible for a number of statistical innovations, including the introduction of survival analysis techniques.
- In addition, I have extensive familiarity with multilevel modelling/hierarchical linear modelling in the analysis of educational data. This has involved mainly MlwiN, but also Mplus. This has included two Economic and Social Research Council-funded projects looking at applications and technical aspects of multilevel modelling.
- I carried out the NFER’s first school effectiveness/value added analysis in 1991, on primary school reading using multilevel modelling.
- I was a consultant (1999) to the Department for Education and Employment on the statistical and psychometric validity of the proposed International Study of Life Skills (ILSS).
- I worked on the design and analysis of some large national and international studies, e.g. the 1986 Assessment of Performance Unit Language survey, the England and Wales sample for the 1990 International Association for the Assessment of Education Progress Mathematics and Science survey, the Trends in Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS), and, more recently, PISA and PIRLS. The studies as implemented included complex sampling plans and it was necessary to estimate sampling errors, design effect and intracluster correlations for the data. I have produced SPSS macros to calculate sampling errors for such studies, and these are in general use in the NFER for this purpose.
- I was responsible for, and did most of, the analyses for the standardisation of the British Ability Scales, a battery of 21 basic scales extending over an age range of 2:6 to 17:11, involving over 3000 computer runs.
- I have had very extensive experience of SPSS and MlwiN, and some experience of SAS, R and Mplus.
- At present some of my research interests include measurement error, computer marking of essays, non-response and randomised control trials.
Since retiring, I have worked at the National Centre for Research and Testing, Delhi, in a capacity-building role, analysing and reporting on the large scale (100,000-plus) National Achievement Surveys (NAS), first in Year V, and later in Year VII/VIII.
I am also working on an RCT in social work practice at the University of Bedford.
PROFESSIONAL
In addition to formal statistical qualifications, I have been a member of the Council of the Royal Statistical Society, and various attached sub-committees.
EXPERIENCE
1986-2010 Chief Statistician, NFER
1976-85 Principal Statistician, National Children’s Bureau.
1974-1976 Lecturer in Economic and Social Statistics, University of Kent at Canterbury
1971-1974 Research Associate, Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh
ADDITIONAL CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE: UK AND INTERNATIONAL
1967-68 Volunteer teacher of Mathematics and Science, Botswana
1977 Member BERA Task Force on Research Careers in Education
1979-82 Council Member Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
1980-83 RSS Council representative on Local Groups committee
1980-84 RSS Council representative on Social Statistics committee
1983-84 RSS President Appointing committee
1988 Technical advisor: Elton Committee on Discipline in Schools
1989-90 RSS Working Party on Official Statistics
1993 ALCD Fellow Multilevel Modelling Project, Institute of Education
1995-present Multilevel modelling project: Institute of Education and University of Bristol: Fellow
1998-9 TIMSS International Technical Advisory Group
1997 DfES Advisory Group on proposed International Survey of Life Skills
2002-3 Consultant National Literacy Study, University of Malta
2002-3 Training National Centre for Education Examinations, and Evaluation (NCEEE) in Item Response theory
2003-5 Consultant: Metropolitan Police on staffing distribution formula
2003-8 Independent member of the Office for National Statistics Quality and Methodology Programme Board.
2003-4 Consultant: Home Office on assessment of initiatives
2004 Consultant: Metropolitan Police on Value Added systems for assessing performance
2005 Teaching multilevel modelling to post-graduate students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
2006-7 Consultant: London Local Government Association on financial distribution formula
2006 Advisor to the Catholic University of Chile and the Chilean Government Education Department on Value Added
2007 Sampling Error Consultant to Vietnam 2007 World Bank Survey of Student Achievements in Mathematics and Vietnamese Reading
2008 Teaching longitudinal data analysis via multilevel modelling to post-graduate students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
2010-2012 Research Associate, Department for International Development, University of Oxford
2011-2012 Consultant, National Assessment Survey Year V and Year VIII, India.
2012-date Tilda Goldberg Research Centre, University of Bedford.
I have published over 60 books, chapters and journal articles. A listing of some relevant recent ones is attached.
BOOKS
HUTCHISON D AND STYLES, B (2010) A guide to running randomised controlled trials for educational researchers. Slough: NFER.
HUTCHISON, D. and BENTON, T. (2009) Parallel Universes and Parallel Measures: Estimating the Reliability of Test Results. Ofqual: HMSO.
SCHAGEN, I, RUDD, P, RIDLEY, K., JUDKINS, M. HUTCHISON, D. and JONES, G. (2005) Statistics Commission Report No. 26: School Education Statistics: User Perspectives. London: Statistics Commission.
MIFSUD, C., GRECH, R., HUTCHISON, D. And MORRISON, J. (2004) Literacy for School Improvement: Value Added for Malta. Valetta: Agenda for NFER, Literacy Unit, University of Malta and The Education Division, Malta.
MIFSUD, C., HUTCHISON, D., GRECH, R. & MORRISON, J. (2004) Improving Literacy in Malta. University of Malta
BENTON, T., HUTCHISON, D., SCHAGEN, I. & SCOTT, E. (2003) Study of the Performance of Maintained Secondary Schools in England. Report for the National Audit Office, November 2003
MIFSUD, C., MILTON, J., BROOKs, G. and HUTCHISON, D. (2000). Literacy in Malta: the 1999 National Survey of the Attainment of Year 2 Pupils. Slough: NFER with the University of Malta.
BROOKS, G., FLANAGAN, N., HENKHUZENS, Z. and HUTCHISON, D. (1998) What Works for Slow Readers? The Effectiveness of Early Intervention Schemes, 100pp. Slough: NFER. ISBN: 0700514805.*
SCHAGEN, I. and HUTCHISON, D. (eds) (1994) How reliable is National Curriculum Assessment? Slough: NFER.
FOXMAN, D., HUTCHISON, D. and BLOOMFIELD. B. (1991) The APU Experience. HMSO.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
HUTCHISON, D. and YESHANEW, T (2010) ‘Using Value Added and Contextualization Techniques in Education’ Proceedings of the First International Conference on Educational Research for Development College of Education, Addis Ababa University 224-240
HUTCHISON, D. (2010) ‘The Standard Error of Moving Average Smoothed Equipercentile Equating’ Quality & Quantity 44 (4), 783-791.
HUTCHISON, D. (2009) ‘Automated essay scoring systems’ chapter 48 in Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges Tan, L. and Subramaniam, R. 777-793. IGI Global.
HUTCHISON, D. and YESHANEW, T (2009) ‘ Augmenting the use of the Rasch model under time constraints’ Quality & Quantity 43, 5, 717-729
HUTCHISON, D. (2008) ‘On the conceptualisation of measurement error’ Oxford Review of Education, 34, 4, 443-461.
SCHAGEN, I and HUTCHISON, D. (2008) ‘Using Multilevel Modelling in Comparability Studies’, Chapter 9 in Techniques for monitoring the comparability of examination standards Newton, P. and Goldstein. H. (eds). London: QCA.
HUTCHISON, D and SCHAGEN, I (2007) ‘PISA and TIMSS- are we the man with two watches?’ Chapter 9 in Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us About Math Achievement. Washington: Brookings Institute.
SCHAGEN, I., HUTCHISON, D and HAMMOND, P (2006) ‘League Tables and Health Checks: The Use of Statistical Data for School Accountability and Self-Evaluation’ CIDREE Yearbook 6.
HUTCHISON, D., MIFSUD, C. GRECH, R. and MORRISON, J. (2005) ‘Literacy in Malta: The National Literacy Survey of Year 5 pupils’ Research in Education 73, 36- 52
HUTCHISON, D., MIFSUD, C., GRECH, R., MORRISON, J. & HANSON, J. (2004) ‘The Malta Literacy Value-Added Project- a template for value added in small islands?’ Research Papers in Education 20, 3, 303–345
SCHAGEN, I. & HUTCHISON, D. (2003) “Adding value in educational research – the marriage of data and analytical power”, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 749-765.
HUTCHISON, D. (2003) ‘The effect of Group-Level Influences on Pupils’ Progress in Reading’. British Education Research Journal, 29,1 25-40.
HUTCHISON, D., KENDALL, L., BARTHOLOMEW, D., KNOTT, M., GALBRAITH, J. and PICCOLI, M. (2000). ‘Reliability of reading assessment in three countries’, Quality and Quantity, 34, 353-65.
HUTCHISON, D. (1993) ‘The Assessment of School Effectiveness Using Administrative Data’ Educational Research