Peter Booth Tymms
Peter Booth Tymms,  (born 21 January 1949) is a British scholar, academic, and researcher in the field of education. He is emeritus professor in the School of Education at Durham University. Tymms is a member of British Academy and is well published with more than 90 scholarly articles.

 Biography 
Tymms earned a degree in natural science from Cambridge University in 1970 and taught science in schools in Zambia and East Durham before taking up an academic career. He completed his PhD at Cambridge University in 1997. 

He then worked at Newcastle University as a researcher on the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) project. He later became lecturer in performance indicators at Moray House, University of Edinburgh, before moving back to Newcastle in 1992. There, he developed the Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project within the Curriculum Evaluation and Management Centre (CEM) which was directed by Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon. CEM moved to Durham University in 1996 and Tymms was selected as the director of the Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project and later became the director of CEM. He studied development and monitoring systems for primary (elementary) schools education, included the development of the PIPS baseline as well as the interactive reading test INCAS.

 Research Work 
Following are Tymms' key contributions in academic domain

Schools and students: He developed the monitoring systems for primary (elementary schools), and the assessments within them which has been used with the PIPS baseline.

Scholarly Work: In 2004, he published a paper that challenged the official view in England that reading and mathematics standards were rising dramatically. The conclusions were largely backed by the Office for National Statistics and had an influence on the official claims.

Longitudinal studies: He tracked the progress of students in schools. He demonstrated that the effective teaching of four year olds can have a lasting effect on students' exam results and their future earnings.

Methodology: Tymms has been an advocate of a scientific approach to educational research and carried out randomized controlled trials in Education. He also used multi-level models in some analyses. He is an advocate of Rasch measurement which led to a published dispute with the statistician Harvey Goldstein.

Broader issues: Tymms has called for a re-evaluation of teaching methods and assessment practices to ensure that they promote genuine understanding and learning interest among students. He was also a board member for NICEs investigation into ADHD

 Memberships 

 Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2021)
 Member of Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) Evaluation Advisory Group

Books
The P Scales: Assessing the Progress of Children with Special Educational Needs. Wiley (2009)
Baseline Assessment and Monitoring in Primary Schools. David Fulton (1999)

 See also 

 Technical and Vocational Education Initiative
 List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 2020s

 References 

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