Collaborating with researchers, mentoring and providing training in statistics, contributing to the maintenance of NFER's Register of Schools database.

Detection of non-random patterns in absence/presence data.

Member of the Royal Statistical Society

Research methods and statistics.

Kirkup, C., Morrison, J. and Whetton, C. (2008). ‘Relationships between A-level courses and SAT scores in sample of UK students’. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting 2008, New York, NY, 24 March [online].

Kirkup, C., Schagen, I., Wheater, R., Morrison, J. and Whetton, C. (2007). Use of an Aptitude Test in University Entrance - a Validity Study: Relationships between SAT© Scores, Attainment Measures and Background Variables (DfES Research Report 846). London: DfES.

Gnaldi, M., Schagen, I., Twist, L. and Morrison, J.(2005). ‘Attitude items and low ability students: the need for a cautious approach to interpretation’, Educational Studies, 31, 2, 103-13.

Hutchison, D., Mifsud, C., Morrison, J., Grech, R., Rudd, P. and Handson, J. (2005). ‘The Malta Primary Literacy Value-Added Project: a template for value-added in small island states?’ Research Papers in Education, 20, 3, 303-45.

Sturman, L., Lewis, K., Morrison, J., Scott, E., Smith, P., Styles, B., Taggart, G. and Woodthorpe, A. (2005). General Teaching Council Survey of Teachers 2005. Final Report [online].

Twist, L., Gnaldi, M., Schagen, I. and Morrison, J. (2004). ‘Good readers but at a cost? Attitudes to reading in England’, Journal of Research in Reading, 27, 4, 387-400.

Schagen, I. and Morrison, J. (1999). ‘A methodology for judging departmental performance within schools’, Educational Research, 41, 1, 3-10.