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Ben is working on a number of survey based projects including the General Teaching Council’s Survey of Teachers and the National Evaluation of the Integrated Aim Higher Programme and the Validity Study of the use of an aptitude test in university entrance. He will be doing much of the work on The Evaluation of Post-16 Structures of Provision for the Learning and Skills Development Agency.
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MA in Natural Sciences followed by Postgraduate Certificate in Education. PhD in neuroscience including many applications of statistics. Since joining the NFER, Ben has worked on multi-level modelling projects including the Northern Ireland Curriculum Cohort Study and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. He has also produced new census based variables for use as an alternative to the traditional free school meals measure.
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and member of British Educational Research Association.
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Research methods and statistics, Science education, School improvement, Widening participation, Further education, Higher education.
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Randomised control trials (RCTs), use of analogy in science education, German.
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Schagen, I., Lopes, J., Rutt, S., Savory, C. and Styles, B. (2006). Evaluating Patterns of Post-16 Provision [online].
Ridley, K., White, K., Styles, B. and Morrison, J. (2005). Factors Affecting Applications to Oxford and Cambridge - Repeat Survey. Final Report [online].
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].
Ruddock, G., Sturman, L., Schagen, I., Styles, B., Gnaldi, M. and Vappula, H. (2004). Where England Stands in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003: National Report for England [online].
Styles, B. (2003). Analogy - constructive or confusing? A students’ perspective School Science Review, 85, 310, 107-16.
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