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Details for Dr George Leckie
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr George Leckie |
| Job title | Reader in Social Statistics |
| Department | School of Education University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/team/leckie.html |
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| Qualifications | B.Sc., MSc, PHD(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | multilevel modelling models school league tables measuring school effectiveness the quality of marking of educational tests social and ethnic segregation among schools |
| Areas of expertise | Research interests Methodological interests in multilevel modelling include: mixture models; variance models; cross-classified models; and multiple membership models. Applications of multilevel modelling to social science research problems include: highlighting limitations of school league tables; measuring school effectiveness; assessing the quality of marking of educational tests; and modelling social and ethnic segregation among schools. Biography I joined the Centre for Multilevel Modelling in 2005 and I am currently working on an ESRC-funded research project: LEMMA (a Learning Environment for Multilevel Modelling and Applications). Previously, I held research positions at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation in the Department of Economics, University of Bristol and I was a visiting researcher at the VU University, Amsterdam. |
| Media experience | My recent LEMMA research (with Professor Harvey Goldstein), on the limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice, received considerable attention in the press; including: BBC Radio 4, Financial Times, The Telegraph and The Times Educational Supplement. |