Dr William Coventry
Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Medicine and Health; School of Psychology
Biography
Dr Coventry's research is in quantitative genetics and educational psychology, addressing numerous questions that pertain to student trajectories throughout schooling. The databases he uses are typically longitudinal – with students measured on 4 occasions. These databases collectively span all school years and are either of twins and their parents or are population-level. A particular focus has been on the NAPLAN testing (i.e. national school assessments of literacy and numeracy). Dr Coventry uses structural equation modelling to delve questions around nature-nurture and longitudinal causation – to the extent such claims are possible! In addition, he researches ways of presenting the probabilities commonly used in statistics (e.g. p-values and confidence intervals).
