I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence. This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines. You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...

New podcast in our AI in #HigherEd series! 🚨 In this podcast, Gene Flenady talks about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’, co-authored by Robert Sparrow Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7g4w... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

New publication alert! 🚨 Framing student navigation of feedback on placements By David Boud, Elizabeth Molloy and Vicky Chang www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEd #Feedback #WorkIntegratedLearning

New Special Issue: Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education 🚨 The SI rethinks the meaning and practices of ‘criticality’, foregrounds diverse perspectives (Confucianism, Arabic-Islamic philosophy...), and opens new pathways for global scholarship www.tandfonline.com/toc/cthe20/3...

Inclusive assessment design: students with disabilities speak out My new study has been published in @herdjournal.bsky.social! What do 139 students have to say about how assessment could be made more inclusive? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How should academic journals navigate these turbulent times in social media? Some musings by myself in the @teachinginhe.bsky.social blog - see below!

Congratulations to @juusonieminen.bsky.social on being awarded the prestigious Erik De Corte award at #EARLI2025! The award recognises an early career researcher who demonstrates exceptional promise in the field of Learning and Instruction. Well done Juuso! blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/juuso...

Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025   We are pleased to announce that the Compassionate Assessment Network is hosting an online symposium. We warmly invite educators, researchers, policymakers and administrators to join us. Call out for submission details here:

How has scholarly research produced knowledge about self-assessment – and the 'selves' of self-assessment, students? Years in the making, our meta-review and discourse analysis of student self-assessment research with David Boud has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New blog post by Sam Illingworth! 🚨 "If we want to improve retention, we need to support our educators – by fostering a culture where learning is shared, creativity is valued, and development feels both personal and powerful" teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/d...

Our Open Access article with Juuso Nieminen of Deakin University is assigned a volume in Teaching in Higher Education🎉It explores how authentic assessment can foster students’ #epistemic #agency, based on a qualitative case study of a digitally-mediated #archaeology course. doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Why do students seek feedback – or choose not to? Our newly published study explores the motivational rationales for students' feedback seeking processes. Huge congratulations to the hugely talented @belindazhouhl.bsky.social on her first publication! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New publication alert! 🚨 Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors By Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #GenAI

🚨 New blog post by Claire Timperley and Kate Schick! "Creative assessments can expand students’ and teachers’ understanding of what education can be – not just an instrumental expression of what students have learned in exchange for a grade" teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/s...

Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New publication alert! 🚨 Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus By Cameron Graham www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #Criticality

How could students be seen as meaningful partners in assessment design, and what do we know about the impact of such partnership practices? Our new review paper with @molliedollin.bsky.social and Tracy Zou is out in Review of Education! bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The new TiHE Special Issue on #AuthenticAssesment is out! David Boud and I contributed to the SI with a paper on self-assessment. What could self-assessment desing learn from authenticity? Read our thoughts on how (in)authenticity could be understood in SA: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're delighted to announce that the winner of our Editors' Choice Award for 2025 is Jiahui Luo (Jess) for the article entitled: How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships? Insights from students’ assessment experiences www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GenAI #AIinEducation

Please share - call for papers #MeToo and Higher Education Special Issue Editors: Professor Denise Cuthbert & Associate Professor Ceridwen Spark Manuscript deadline: 25 April 2025 More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

How do disabled pre-service teachers narrate their identities? Our new paper, led by the incredibly talented Hin Ki Cheung, is published in Disability & Society! We discuss how teacher ed programs narrow down potential and desirable ways of being 'a good teacher' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Next ASCILITE Transforming Assessment SIG webinar 5 March 2025 "Interactive Oral Assessments in first-year" [7AM UK | 3PM SG/HK | 6PM SYD/MEL | 8PM NZ]. More info, timezone conversion and reg: taw.fi/5mar2025

Self-assessment is increasingly digital, but has digital self-assessment design kept pace with the digital world? In our new paper with Zi Yan and David Boud, we explore how self-assessment could be more relevant for students' increasingly digital futures ⚡💽 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Changing institutions as an #academic means adapting to a new system, and relearning/remapping organisational dynamics and your role in them. It's hard work. Now, changing institutions internationally is a whole different beast with #language and #culture entering the chat. Year 2 and still learning

Uusi tutkimus julkaistu! Tutkimme @juusonieminen.bsky.social kanssa opettajien toimijuutta päättöarvioinnissa. Tunnistimme viisi toimijuustyyppiä: Innostunut, Tyytyväinen toteuttaja, Kuuliainen kriitikko, Immuuni ja Kapinallinen. Lue lisää 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our new paper out in Journal of Curriculum Studies! ✨ How do teachers enact their agency during an assessment reform? Based on interviews with 66 Finnish teachers, we analysed different forms of teacher agency in assessment. Led by @lauraketonen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Manitoba teachers, interested in inclusive #assessment? Join us for a conversation on February 5 featuring the fantastic Dionne Potapinski & Jamie Galbraith: tinyurl.com/IEPRT2025

It feels surreal: today is my last day in Hong Kong before moving to Melbourne, Australia, to start a new chapter in my life. Thank you @hkuscape.bsky.social for providing such a wonderful space to grow academically! Dear HK friends and colleagues, I hope to see you all soon—let's stay in touch! 😊

The number of review invitations I’ve received today on Dec 23… c’mon editors! 😁 #PeerReview

Today we had the very last gathering with our assessment research group at @hkuscape.bsky.social. I wish all the best for these brilliant PhD and EdD students in the future! Stay tuned for 2025 publications on assessment, emotions, motivation, feedback literacy… 😎

Nytt från vårt nätverk N-GRADE: En artikel om betygsmotstånd i Norge... doi.org/10.1002/curj...

When students experience useful feedback sequences, they begin to appreciate feedback as a valuable process: recent short video scape.edu.hku.hk/longitudinal...

@lauraketonen.bsky.social: sitä saat mitä arvioit! Mainio, pohdiskeleva teksti arvioinnin, koulun ja yhteiskunnan muutosten välimaastosta. Tarvitaanko kouluun lisää mittaamisen kulttuuria? www.opettaja.fi/tyossa/sita-...

'I am simultaneously a ghost and a force within myself.' Such a beautiful and important essay on disability, ableism and inclusion in #HigherEd from the viewpoint of an undergraduate student, Joel Leslie: writingacrossuofa.ca/index.php/wr...

How does the gap between theory and practice look like from the viewpoint of a fresh teacher graduate? How could the theories from teacher education be applied in contexts dominated by drilling for high-stakes exams? Stephanie Young explores these ideas in the new @hkuscape.bsky.social blog! 📚

Interdisciplinary curricula are such a great opportunity for students to be curious and broaden their thinking. Man Ho Adrian Lam started writing about the Common Core as an undergraduate sehej.raise-network.com/raise/articl... and it is fantastic to see this detailed analysis from his current work.

@czernie.bsky.social is 100% right. You want to make a difference? Get involved in your uni's procurement process of ed tech softwares (including GenAI). Push back - ask thorny questions. Don't let them cut out the academic voice, especially the voice fighting for greater equity. #ascilite2024

How are interdisciplinary curricula designed and implemented in Hong Kong? The wildly talented PhD student Man Ho Adrian Lam from @hkuscape.bsky.social has just published a new article on interdisciplinary education in #HigherEd in Studies in Higher Education! ⚡ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Current higher education approaches to feedback are insufficient, focusing too heavily on evaluative feedback & neglecting consequential feedback. New paper, out today (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) Not got time to read the full article? Try this audio file: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/fcc...

The modern world! Watching webinar from @juusonieminen.bsky.social in Hong Kong, hosted by @rmforsyth.bsky.social in Lund, while I’m on the bus between York and Leeds.

The audio version of Higher Education for Good is now available. To access the audio, please visit the book web page www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116..., scroll down to any chapter, and click Download (for MP3 version). #HE4Good @czernie.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

How could university placements be more inclusive for diverse learners? Through proper pedagogical design, we argue in this paper led by @molliedollin.bsky.social. Now published in the latest issue of Studies in Higher Education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Authentic assessment is not a panacea. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/auth... @timeshighered.bsky.social on design, tradeoffs & assumptions that authentic assessment will solve cheating, inclusion & preparing graduates for futures. Full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Come join the #Compassionate #Assessment in HE network for a session with the fabulous @juusonieminen.bsky.social How could assessment promote communal values? Thursday 21st Nov 10-11 am GMT. You can book through our #QAA page: www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/c...

The newest issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics is out! Take a look for wonderful papers on e.g. school-university transitions, care in online learning environments and teacher beliefs about their role in the classroom ⚡️ Vol 117, Issue 3 #MathEd link.springer.com/journal/1064...

Five universities in Hong Kong organised an excellent symposium today about measuring student experience in #HigherEd. Key takeaway: assessment was the one of the most (if not the most) influential factors contributing to student learning and experiences across these five institutions! 😳

@seraethics.bsky.social I've added you to this starter pack too 😊 go.bsky.app/DBGTX4t

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR

Who doesn’t love authentic assessment. But is it always good? Does it have magical properties? Or does it require careful negotiation of design considerations, purposes and trade-offs? New open access paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hello, friends and colleagues in BlueSky! 👋🏻 It’s finally time to activate my account here. Looking forward to getting back to academic chatter after a few quiet months in social media!