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Liz Twist
BA PGCE MA (Ed)
Principal Research Officer
l.twist@nfer.ac.uk
+44 (0)1753 637146

Liz is a Principal Research Officer in the Department for Research in Assessment and Measurement. She directs the project developing the key stage 2 English tests under contract to NAA. She is also National Research Coordinator for England and for Scotland in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).

Before joining NFER in 1997, Liz was deputy headteacher of a combined school and has taught pupils throughout the primary age range.

Assessment; primary education; literacy; pupil attitudes; international comparisons; special educational needs

Assessment for learning; special access arrangements

Whetton, C., Ruddock, G. and Twist, L. (2007). Standards in English Primary Education: the International Evidence (Primary Review Research Survey 4/2). Cambridge: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.

Hodgson, C., Twist, L. and Sainsbury, M. (2006). Assessment for Learning: Literacy - Practical Resources for the Classroom. Resource Pack 8-9. London: nferNelson.[Report details]

Reed, M., Twist, L. and Sainsbury, M. (2006). Assessment for Learning: Literacy - Practical Resources for the Classroom. Resource Pack 7-8. London: nferNelson. [Report details]

Sizmur, J., Twist, L. and Sainsbury, M. (2006). Assessment for Learning: Literacy - Practical Resources for the Classroom. Resource Pack 9-10. London: nferNelson. [Report details]

Twist, L. and Sainsbury, M. (2006). Assessment for Learning: Literacy - Practical Resources for the Classroom. Resource Pack 10-11. London: nferNelson. [Report details]

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.

Twist, L. (2005). ‘How well do young people read — and do they enjoy it?’ NFER News, Winter, 11. [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.

Sainsbury, M. and Twist, L. (2003). ‘Libraries and reading around the world ’, Library + Information Update, 3, 1, 27-9.

Twist, L. (2003). ‘Reading all over the world’, NFER News, Spring, 3. [online].

Twist, L. and Sainsbury, M. (2003). ‘World readers’, Junior Education, June, 12-13.

Twist, L., Sainsbury, M., Woodthorpe, A. and Whetton, C. (2003). ‘New evidence on reading standards’, Education Journal, 69, 28-31.

Twist, L., Sainsbury, M., Woodthorpe, A. and Whetton, C. (2003). Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS): Research Summary. Slough: NFER.

Twist, L., Sainsbury, M., Woodthorpe, A. and Whetton, C. (2003). Reading All Over the World: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). National Report for England. [online].

Sainsbury, M. and Twist, L. (2002). ‘Developing English tests’, NFER Annual Report 2001-2002, 56, 10-11.