photo Tony (A.R.) Gardner-Medwin
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology (NPP), UCL,  London
Phone: +44 (0)20 7607 7135
E-mail a.gardner-medwin@ucl.ac.uk

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Tony Gardner-Medwin is an emeritus professor of physiology at UCL, with a background in biophysics, computational and experimental neuroscience. He has introduced many teaching initiatives into the curricula at UCL, particularly using computers to free teachers' time for the face-to-face roles where they are essential. He has focussed for many years on Certainty-Based Marking, to derive maximal advantage from use of objective test questions: to challenge students more effectively in self-tests and to render summative assessments more reliable and better measures of knowledge.

Principal Research Interests:
Theoretical and experimental neurobiology. Representations of sensory information in relation to perception, learning and inference. Long-Term Potentiation. Bayesian algorithms related to neural function. Quantification and neural correlates of knowledge and uncertainty. Confidence as a pedagogic issue. Sleep function.  Monitoring sleepiness. Disorders of the neural environment. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magneto-Encephalography. Visual and vestibulo-ocular psychophysics. Cochlear Mechanics. Electrophysiology, biophysics, psychophysics.

  • PUBLICATIONS
  • Chronological (mixed)
  • Research Publications
  • Teaching Publications
  • Google Scholar (Citations)

  • STATISTICS in Law: A serious challenge to the current advice from UK Statisticians to Lawyers
  • BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT   What kind of probability is at stake?

  • CERTAINTY BASED MARKING (CBM) - Teaching Initiative:
  • Certainty Based Marking  CBM Introduction (including CBM in Moodle)
  • CBM Intro  (CBM) - Introduction for students

  • Miscellaneous CBM Exercises for University Students:
  • Biomedical Exercises   CBM
  • Maths in Medical Science [30 randomised Qs] Fundamental concepts for Med students (UCL)
  • Statistics / Biometry [41 Qs]  (UCL)
  • Classical Physical Mechanics [29 Qs]  (UCL)
  • Diagnostic exercise [12 randomised Qs]: Indices, logarithms

  • School Maths using CBM:
  • GCSE Mathematics [111 Qs] Examples: algebra, proportions, volumes, etc.
  • QCA Key Skills [12 Qs], an example problem-solving exercise in 'Application of Number' Level 4
  • Mental Arithmetic [26+ Qs] - elementary numeracy(randomised exercises - demo & fun)

  • LABVIEW Simulations to Assist Learning in Physics, Maths, Stats, Physiology
  • Compiled LABVIEW Program with exercises (PC only): download from here (4MB), expand - creating a folder "LABVIEW" - then run the file SELECT (or SELECT.EXE).

    • Please email me if you find mistakes on this website, or links that do not work: a.gardner-medwin@ucl.ac.uk