People

The consortium is directed by three researchers from statistics, psychology and mathematics education, whose collaboration reflects the interdisciplinary reach of comparative judgement itself.

Conveners

Ian Jones

Professor of Mathematics Education and Head of Department, Loughborough University

Ian has led the development of comparative judgement as a research method in mathematics education for over fifteen years, using it to measure conceptual understanding, problem solving and mathematical proof, and to study how assessment standards change over time. He is Scientific Advisor to No More Marking, created the open-source comparative judgement plug-in for Moodle, and co-authored the field's standard methods paper and meta-analysis. A former school teacher, he completed his PhD at the University of Warwick and held a Royal Society research fellowship before joining Loughborough.

Marie-Josée Bisson

Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Loughborough University

Marie-Josée is a cognitive psychologist whose research examines how people learn languages and mathematics, including the cognitive predictors of learning, cross-linguistic similarity and multilingualism. She was among the first to bring comparative judgement into experimental psychology, using it alongside behavioural tasks, eye-tracking and EEG to measure conceptual understanding. She completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham, lectured at De Montfort University for a decade, and is a member of Loughborough's Centre for Mathematical Cognition.

Rowland Seymour

Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Birmingham

Rowland is a Bayesian statistician who develops the models and computational methods behind comparative judgement, including spatial and clustered extensions of the Bradley–Terry model and the speedyBBT R package. His applied work uses comparative judgement to measure things that are otherwise hard to quantify, from urban deprivation to the prevalence of modern slavery and forced marriage. He holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham.

Members

The consortium’s members come from universities, assessment organisations and industry. Our meetings have featured speakers from, among others, University College London, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Nottingham, the University of Stirling, Goldsmiths, the Université de Liège, the Universiteit Antwerpen, KU Leuven, Massey University, Ofqual, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, No More Marking and Comproved.

Membership is open to anyone working with, or interested in, comparative judgement: join the mailing list to take part.