Rate My Professor Alyson Simpson

At the University of Sydney, Professor Simpson has held progressive academic appointments, including lecturer, senior lecturer, Associate Professor, and Associate Dean (Education). She leads major funded research initiatives, such as 'What's the Evidence? A Study on Teacher Quality,' supported by the New South Wales Department of Education from 2021 to 2024, examining teacher effectiveness, early career readiness, and attrition. As Acting Director and Project Lead for the Assessment for Graduate Teaching (AfGT), she oversees evaluations of graduate teachers. Her influential publications include the book 'Children's Literature and Computer Based Teaching' (2005), 'The digital reading path: Researching modes and multidirectionality with iPads' (Literacy, 2013, 154 citations), 'Conceptualising the impact of initial teacher education' (Australian Educational Researcher, 2019, 78 citations), 'Dialogic teaching in the initial teacher education classroom: "Everyone’s voice will be heard"' (2018), and 'Responsible reading: Children’s literature and social justice' (Education Sciences, 2022, 69 citations). Her scholarship, with over 850 citations on ResearchGate, shapes literacy education and teacher professionalism. In 2019, she received the Maurice Saxby Award from the School Library Association of New South Wales for her passion in promoting reading and writing for young people, including decades of voluntary service with the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA). She engages publicly through initiatives like the Illuminate Children's Literature course and international panels such as the Literacy Research Panel.