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Jake Anders

@jakeanders.uk

1.7K followers 570 following 180 posts

Education, evaluation, economics, etc.
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, COSMO study
Dad to three.
https://jakeanders.uk

Education 46%

Political science 16%

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 4h

Dog*

* Terms & conditions apply.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 3d

Might work for you/yours. Might be a colossal waste of cash. I think there is no way to predict in advance.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 3d

I’ll see what I can do!

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 3d

Last call for this as a) it’s almost full and b) we have to send the list of attendees very early in the year so registration will close either way!

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 17d

Want to know more about using UCAS data to research transitions to HE (and delay the return to your desk in Jan!)?

Join us in person at the Department for Education in London for a research showcase with @adruk.bsky.social

🕕Tues 6th Jan, 10.30am-4pm

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977270535...

Using UCAS data to understand higher education transitions

Join us in person at the Department for Education in London to learn more about using UCAS data to better understand youth transitions

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 7d

Congratulations! May she bring you both ever so much joy

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 7d

Does this make you a NIMBY, Alex?

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 7d

You never know what they might get up to by themselves.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 7d

Never leave your UKDS datasets unattended!

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 7d

Great quiz! I didn’t do quite as well, with a couple of silly mistakes…

I scored 65% on the Centre for British Progress Big British Progress Quiz of the Year!

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quizzes.britishprogress.org/quiz/christm...

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 7d

All the very best!

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 10d

This was my thinking exactly. I could imagine it being a useful first pass (probably not final pass, as humans are still delightfully weird in survey response) test for problems with your survey design. So why on earth pitch it as this nonsense?!

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 10d

Not on my watch — I am doubling down on em-dash use.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to AI, em dashes are now going to vanish from our language because people who genuinely use them will be too worried about others accusing them of using AI.

Reposted by Jake Anders

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to AI, em dashes are now going to vanish from our language because people who genuinely use them will be too worried about others accusing them of using AI.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 10d

This is just madness

Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 10d

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Text reads: About synthetic panels
Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels.

Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey.

Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

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Discussion
The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002)
of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Reposted by Robert Böhm, Brady T. West, Brendan Nyhan , and 43 more Robert Böhm, Brady T. West, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Hodson, Carl T. Bergstrom, Richard Price, Steven Van de Walle, Mary Feeney, Jamie Morgan, Ian Hall, Fabián Muniesa, Jason Reifler, Kelly Smith, Ingo Rohlfing, Ian Hussey, James Grimmelmann, Smith, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Patrick S. Forscher, Michelle L. Mazurek, Margot C. Finn, Michael D. McDonald, Sebastian Karcher, Martin Kreidl, Maria Abreu, Eric Hehman, Zen Faulkes, Joanna Tai, Madeleine Pownall, Damian Trilling, David Murakami Wood, Sofia Stathi, Johannes Breuer, Woodrow Hartzog, Greg Linden, Jack Stilgoe, Richard M. Carpiano, Aleksandra Urman, Juan Ramón, Gemma C. Sharp, Terry Gaasterland, Maksym Polyakov, Jake Anders, Jeannette Sutton, Béatrice Cointe

Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 10d

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Text reads: About synthetic panels
Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels.

Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey.

Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

Text reads:
Discussion
The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002)
of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Reposted by Jake Anders

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 11d

On Bondi Beach today: the belongings of people who ran away in the chaos of yesterday’s shooting, in case they come back to claim them

Including tiny shoes and toys of the kids

Reposted by Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 16d

🎄 CEPEO Xmas Seminar 🎄

Human Capital Spillovers in the United Kingdom
🗣️ Dr Fabien Petit (University of Barcelona)

📍 Room G06A, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP
🗓️ Thursday 11 December
⏰ 2 pm (UK time)

🔗 Register here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#CEPEOSeminarSeries

Reposted by Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 17d

Want to know more about using UCAS data to research transitions to HE (and delay the return to your desk in Jan!)?

Join us in person at the Department for Education in London for a research showcase with @adruk.bsky.social

🕕Tues 6th Jan, 10.30am-4pm

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977270535...

Using UCAS data to understand higher education transitions

Join us in person at the Department for Education in London to learn more about using UCAS data to better understand youth transitions

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Reposted by Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 21d

The ONS research excellence awards took place yesterday.

@jakeanders.uk co-authored work on the impact of free schools which won the People's Choice Award and Claire Crawford worked with @theifs.bsky.social on the Sure Start evaluation which won the Impact of Analysis Award.

Congratulations!

Reposted by Jake Anders

TASO @taso.org.uk · 22d

We’re recruiting an Evaluation Officer (12-month maternity cover) to support our work in building strong evidence on what improves widening participation & student success.

Salary: £37,474
App deadline: 8 December 2025, 09:00 GMT

Find out more and apply: taso.org.uk/vacancy/eval...

Evaluation Officer: maternity cover | 12-month full-time contract - TASO

The Evaluation Officer will work on TASO’s research and evaluation programme to develop a better understanding of what works to support widening participation and student success

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 28d

Seconded.

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell, Scott L. Greer , and 12 more Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell, Scott L. Greer, Dave O’Brien, Justin H. Kirkland, Benjamin Lauderdale, Lucy Barnes, Ariadne Vromen, Aileen McHarg, Steven Fielding, Jack Stilgoe, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Jake Anders, Laura McAtackney, Alan Renwick

UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 28d

Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!

@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.

Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.

Apply 👇

Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics

The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.

Reposted by Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 28d

Why do people choose to become teachers?

Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

EconPapers: Understanding the decision (not) to become a teacher: evidence from survey experiments with undergraduates in the UK and US

By Sam Sims and Clare Routledge; Abstract: Teacher shortages are widespread, yet the reasons people choose (not) to enter the profession remain poorly understood.

econpapers.repec.org

Reposted by Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 29d

The government's opportunity mission set the goal of reaching 75% of children having a good level of development when starting school by 2028.

It's good to see this has now reached 68.3%, up 0.6%pts from last year, but still a way to go.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Nov 25

Damn right, it’s a bad approach to fiscal policy.
I can teach you, but I have to charge.

Reposted by Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Nov 24

There's still time to register for this week's CEPEO seminar!

We are hosting Dr Judith Delaney from University of Bath who will presenting work on the effect of university grade inflation on graduate outcomes

REGISTER NOW: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

UCL CEPEO
Autumn Seminar Series 2025
The effect of university grade inflation on graduate outcomes
Dr Judith Delaney (University of Bath)
Thursday 27th November 2025, 3pm (UK Time)
#CEPEOSeminarSeries

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Nov 21

I’ve made a note. Nothing imminent I’m afraid, but it’s not forgotten!

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Nov 21

This study is only a single cohort, so can’t do so with this on its own (but have ways to look within-cohort based on school-level variation in disruption). But we’ve tried to be very similar to the Millennium Cohort Study (few years older; finished pre-pandemic) for exactly that reason.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Nov 21

We’re working on it… cosmostudy.uk

Reposted by Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Nov 20

CEPEO is launching a new Master's programme with @sriucl.bsky.social — this will support students to understand and conduct rigorous research addressing challenges in education policy & educational inequalities.

Applications now open for Oct 2026 start.

Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Social Policy (Quantitative Education Analysis) MSc

The Social Policy (Quantitative Education Analysis) MSc is designed to help students understand and conduct rigorous research addressing challenges relating to education policy and educational inequalities in a wide variety of professional contexts. The relationship between robust research and evidence-based policy is a key course theme.