Dougal Hutchison

BSc MSc PhD
Chief Statistician
d.hutchison@nfer.ac.uk
+44(0)1753 574123 Switchboard

Dougal's current work and responsibilities at NFER include psychometric development, international statistics and measurement work.

Prior experience and professional background

Principal Statistician - National Children's Bureau
Lecturer - University of Kent

Dougal is a member of the Royal Statistical Society and the Psychometric Society.

Main research interests

Assessment, International research, Research methods and statistics.

Other research interests

Item Response Theory, psychometrics, multi-level modelling, value-added methodology.

Selected publications

Hutchison, D. (2008). ‘On the conceptualisation of measurement error’, Oxford Review of Education, 34, 443-460.

Hutchison, D. (2007). 'When is a compositional effect not a compositional effect?' Quality & Quantity, 41, 219-232.

Schagen, I., Hutchison, D. and Hammond, P. (2006). 'League tables and health checks: the use of statistical data for school accountability and self-evaluation.' In Dobbelstein, P. and Neidhadt, T. (Eds) Schools for Quality - What Data-based Approaches Can Contribute. Sint-Katelijne -Waver: Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe.

Hutchison, D. and Brooks, G. (2007). 'Literacy and numeracy of British Army recruits?' Literacy Today, 50, 26-27.

Schagen, I. and Hutchison, D. (2007). 'Comparisons between PISA and TIMMS - we could be the man with two watches', Education Journal, 101, 34-35.

Hutchison, D. (2005). ‘RCTs in education’, RSS News, 33, 3, 11.

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.

Schagen, I., Rudd, P., Ridley, K., Judkins, M., Jones, G. and Hutchison, D. (2005). ‘Review of schools education statistics.’ In: Statistics Commission School Education Statistics: User Perspectives (Report No. 26).

MIifsud, C., Hutchison, D., Grech, R. and Morrison, J. (2005). ‘Literacy in Malta: the National Literacy Survey of year 5 pupils’, Research in Education, 73, 36-52.

Benton, T., Hutchison, D., Schagen, I. and Scott, E. (2003). Study of the Performance of Maintained Secondary Schools in England: Report for the National Audit Office.

Hutchison, D. (2003). ‘The effect of group-level influences on pupils’ progress in reading’, British Educational Research Journal, 29, 1, 25-40.

Schagen, I. and Hutchison, D. (2003). ‘Adding value in educational research - the marriage of data and analytical power’, British Educational Research Journal, 29, 5, 749-65.