Ariel is an Associate Professor and Research Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. She leads and contributes to projects related to educational effectiveness, improvement, and equity, largely in pre-school, primary and secondary phases of education. Methodologically, she has expertise in advanced statistical methods and mixed methods, and an interest in appropriately contextualised approaches to evaluation.
Ariel completed her DPhil in the Oxford University Department of Education. She holds Qualified Teacher Status in the UK, and prior to becoming a researcher she was a secondary mathematics teacher in the USA since 2006. She is also a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, with a Masters in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Hunter College, City University of New York.
Experience
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2022–presentAssociate professor, University of Oxford
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2017–presentResearch fellow, University of Oxford
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2021–2022Research Lecturer, University of Oxford
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2020–2021Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford
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2013–2017Research assistant, University of Oxford
Education
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2017University of Oxford, DPhil Education
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2011MA Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Hunter College, City University of New York
Publications
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2023PIRLS 2021: National Report for England, DfE/Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment
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2023Student wellbeing: Research shows that the benefits are far-reaching, but implementation is key to success, Impact: Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching
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2022Coaching Early Conversation, Interaction and Language (CECIL) Impact evaluation, Sutton Trust/Oxford University
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2022Editorial: Learning in times of COVID-19: students’, families’, and educators’ perspectives, Frontiers in Psychology
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2020International perspectives in educational effectiveness research (co-edited), Springer
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2020Hybrid content-specific and generic approaches to lesson observation: Possibilities and practicalities, Studies in Educational Evaluation
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2020The impact of promoting student wellbeing on student academic and non-academic outcomes: An analysis of the evidence, Oxford University Press
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2019'It ain’t (only) what you do, it’s the way that you do it’: A mixed method approach to the study of inspiring teachers, Review of Education
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2019Investigating a Singapore-based mathematics textbook and teaching approach in classrooms in England, Frontiers in Education
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2018Going beyond structured observations: Looking at classroom practice through a mixed method lens, ZDM
Professional Memberships
- Royal Statistical Society (CStat)
- British Educational Research Association
- Oxford, UK
- Website
- Article Feed
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For media enquiries,
ariel.lindorff@education.ox.ac.uk - ORCID
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