Peter Booth Tymms, FBA (born 21 January 1949) is a British scholar, academic, and researcher in the field of education. He is emeritus professor in the School of Education at Durham University. Tymms is a member of British Academy and is well published with more than 90 scholarly articles.[1][2][3]
Peter Tymms | |
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| Born | Peter Booth Tymms 21 January 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Emeritus Professor, Researcher |
| Awards | Fellow of the British Academy Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing |
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| Institutions | University of Durham |
Biography
editTymms earned a degree in natural science from Cambridge University in 1970 and taught science in schools in Zambia and East Durham before taking up an academic career. He completed his PhD at Cambridge University in 1997.[4]
He then worked at Newcastle University as a researcher on the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) project. He later became lecturer in performance indicators at Moray House, University of Edinburgh, before moving back to Newcastle in 1992. There, he developed the Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project within the Curriculum Evaluation and Management Centre (CEM) which was directed by Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon.[5][6] CEM moved to Durham University in 1996 and Tymms was selected as the director of the Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project and later became the director of CEM.[7] He studied development and monitoring systems for primary (elementary) schools education, included the development of the PIPS baseline as well as the interactive reading test INCAS.[8][9][10][11]
Research Work
editFollowing are Tymms' key contributions in academic domain[3]
Schools and students: He developed the monitoring systems for primary (elementary schools), and the assessments within them which has been used with the PIPS baseline.[8][9]
Scholarly Work: In 2004, he published a paper that challenged the official view in England that reading and mathematics standards were rising dramatically. The conclusions were largely backed by the Office for National Statistics and had an influence on the official claims.[5][12]
Longitudinal studies: He tracked the progress of students in schools.[13] He demonstrated that the effective teaching of four year olds can have a lasting effect on students' exam results and their future earnings.[10][14][15]
Methodology: Tymms has been an advocate of a scientific approach to educational research and carried out randomized controlled trials in Education. He also used multi-level models in some analyses. He is an advocate of Rasch measurement which led to a published dispute with the statistician Harvey Goldstein.[16][17]
Broader issues: Tymms has called for a re-evaluation of teaching methods and assessment practices to ensure that they promote genuine understanding and learning interest among students. He was also a board member for NICE's investigation into ADHD[18]
Memberships
edit- Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2021)[1][19]
- Member of Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) Evaluation Advisory Group[11][20]
Books
edit- The P Scales: Assessing the Progress of Children with Special Educational Needs. Wiley (2009)
- Baseline Assessment and Monitoring in Primary Schools. David Fulton (1999)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Professor suing Durham University for £8m over profits of his intellectual property". The Northern Echo. 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ "Tymms PB[Author] - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ a b "Search results | JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ "Peter Tymms". The Conversation. 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ a b Statistics Commission Report (Feb 2005). "Statistics Commission MEASURING STANDARDS IN ENGLISH PRIMARY SCHOOLS Report by the Statistics Commission on an article by Peter Tymms" (PDF). UK Statistics Authority.
- ^ College of Education Arizona State University (January 16, 2002). "Education Policy Analysis Archives". Education Policy Analysis Archives.
- ^ House of Commons (January 2009). "Memorandum submitted by Professor Peter Tymms, Durham University". UK Parliament.
- ^ a b "Research find primary schools should put their best teachers in reception classes". The Northern Echo. 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ a b "Education: Department seeks single transfer test by 2017". BBC News. 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ a b House of Commons (7 April 2005). "Select Committee on Education and Skills Eighth Report". UK Parliament.
- ^ a b "Impact case study : Results and submissions : REF 2021". results2021.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ Andalo, Debbie (2005-02-17). "Primary figures 'no indicator' of rising standards". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. "STANDARDS AND QUALITY IN ENGLISH PRIMARY SCHOOLS OVER TIME: the national evidence" (PDF). The Cambridge Primary Review Trust.
- ^ Tymms, Peter; Merrell, Christine; Bailey, Katharine (2018-04-03). "The long-term impact of effective teaching". School Effectiveness and School Improvement. 29 (2): 242–261. doi:10.1080/09243453.2017.1404478. ISSN 0924-3453.
- ^ UK Department for Education (January 2023). "The economic benefits of effective Reception classes in England Research report" (PDF). UK Department for Education.
- ^ Goldstein, Harvey (Feb 2015). "Rasch measurement: a response to Payanides, Robinson and Tymms". British Educational Research Journal. 41 (1): 176–179. doi:10.1002/berj.3170. ISSN 0141-1926.
- ^ Panayides, Panayiotis; Robinson, Colin; Tymms, Peter (10 February 2015). "Rasch measurement: a response to Goldstein". British Educational Research Journal. 41 (1): 180–182. doi:10.1002/berj.3182. ISSN 0141-1926.
- ^ Sayal, Kapil; Owen, Victoria; White, Kate; Merrell, Christine; Tymms, Peter; Taylor, Eric (May 2010). "Impact of early school-based screening and intervention programs for ADHD on children's outcomes and access to services: follow-up of a school-based trial at age 10 years". Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 164 (5): 462–469. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.40. ISSN 1538-3628. PMID 20439798.
- ^ The British Academy. "Professor Peter Tymms FBA". The British Academy.
- ^ Education Endowment Foundation. "Evaluation Advisory Group: Members of the EEF Evaluation Advisory Group". Education Endowment Foundation.