Marielle Simon began her career as an elementary school teacher in Ontario. She later worked in the research departments of various School Boards in the Ottawa region. Her mandate as a professor at the Faculty of Education started in 1994 and she became full professor in 2004. Marielle received, as principal researcher or as co-researcher, funding for numerous research projects on topics related to classroom and large-scale assessment such as the assessment portfolio, the effects of reading and writing teaching practices on student achievement on large-scale assessments, teacher grading practices, student motivation on large-scale studies, validity of comparative assessment results from various linguistic versions, treatment of missing data in educational research and the development of a hybrid introspective data collection method based on rational criticism.
Marielle Simon
Journals & other
Roth, W.-M., Ercikan, K., Simon, M. & Folac, R. (2015). The assessment of mathematical literacy of linguistic minority students: Results of a multi-method investigation, The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 40(A), 88-105.
Ercikan, K., Chen, M. Y., Lyons-Thomas, J., Goodrich, S., Sandilands, D., Roth, W.-M. & Simon, M. (2015). Reading Proficiency and Comparability of Mathematics and Science Scores for Students From English and Non-English Backgrounds: An International Perspective, International Journal of Testing, 15(2), 153-175.
Sarwar, G. S., Zerpa, C., Barneveld, C. V., Simon, M. &Brinson, K. (2013). Merging Large-Scale Assessment Data for Secondary Analysis: Experiences with EQAO’s Data, Journal of Education and Learning, 2(2), 44-54.
Research interests
- Assessment of learning
- Large-scale assessments