Helen Betts

BSc, PGCE
Senior Research Officer
h.betts@nfer.ac.uk
+44(0)1753 637134

Helen is a Senior Research Officer in the Department for Research in Assessment and Measurement and is responsible for development of Key Stage 1 level 3 reading test and Year 3 Optional reading and writing tests. Other project work includes the inventory of language certification systems in Europe.

Prior experience and professional background

BSc (Hons) Psychology (First), PGCE in Primary Education, Managing Editor (Primary division) Harcourt Education.

Research interests

Assessment, International research, Literacy, National Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Special educational needs, Early Childhood, Primary Education.

Selected publication

Foster, H. and Lewis, C. (2006). Robots, jetpacks and time machines: children's ideas of English in the future, English in Education, 40, 3, 55-65.