Journal Papers
Sims, S., & Allen, R. (2018). Identifying schools with high usage and high loss of newly qualified teachers. National Institute Economic Review, 243(1), R27-R36.
Journal paper here / Blog here / Coverage here , here
Allen, R., & Sims, S. (2018) Do pupils from low-income families get low-quality teachers? Indirect evidence from English schools. Oxford Review of Education, 44(4), 441-458.
Journal paper here / Coverage here
Jerrim, J., & Sims, S. (2018). The association between attending a grammar school and children’s socio-emotional outcomes. New evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. Forthcoming in British Journal of Educational Studies.
Journal paper here
Work in Progress
Zieger, L., Jerrim, J. & Sims, S. (Under Review). Comparing teachers’ job satisfaction across countries. A multiple-pairwise measurement invariance approach. Minor revisions Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice.
Working paper here / Coverage here and here
Jerrim, J. & Sims, S. (Under Review) Why do so few low and middle-income children
attend a grammar school? New evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. Minor revisions British Educational Research Journal.
Working paper here / Coverage here
Sims, S., & Fletcher-Wood, H. (Under Review). Characteristics of effective teacher professional development: What we know, what we don’t know, how we can find out.
Working paper here / Coverage here
Jerrim, J., Oliver, M., & Sims, S. (Under Review). The relationship between inquiry-based teaching and students’ achievement. New evidence from a longitudinal PISA study in England.
Jerrim, J. & Sims, S. (Under Review) How do academically-selective school systems affect pupil’s social-emotional competencies and academic attainment? Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study.
Working paper here / Coverage here, here, here, here, here
Sims, S. (Under Review) Modelling the relationships between teacher working conditions, job satisfaction and desire to move schools.
Full version here / Simple version here / Coverage here
Books
Allen R., & Sims, S. (2018) The Teacher Gap. London: Routledge.
Available here
Commissioned Reports
Sims, S. (2018) What happens when you pay shortage subject teachers more money? Simulating the effect of early-career salary supplements on the supply of shortage-subject teachers in England. London: Gatsby Foundation.
Referenced by the government’s teacher pay advisory body (p.69) here
Allen, R. & Sims, S. (2017) Improving Science Teacher Retention. Wellcome Foundation.
Paper here / Coverage here, here
Knibbs, S., Mollidor, C., Lindley, L., Allen, R. & Sims, S. (2017) Evaluation of the High-Potential Middle Leaders Programme: Secondary. National College for Teaching and Leadership.
Paper here
Sam Sims Quantitative Education Research
