Assessment
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What can we learn about assessment and AI from doomscrolling socials?
While doomscrolling earlier this week – bad habits, but hey! – I caught the Aldi supermarket thread (great doom scrolling!),… Read More
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Sound and Situated Assessment: The Choices We Make
I’ve given a few talks recently on assessment in an AI-infused world, and I’ve found myself returning to a question… Read More
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A Restless Rethink? AI and Assessment (thoughts from the HE Professional Talk)
In my talk about assessment redesign in an age of AI last week at the HE Professional Assessment and Integrity… Read More
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Restoring pride and joy: Assessment in an age of AI
In recent talks that I have given about artificial intelligence in learning and assessment, one point has piqued quite a… Read More
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Leading Strategic Change in Assessment #AHEConference2025
This morning I ran an invited workshop, with Dr Iain McDonald of Cumbria University, at the Assessment in Higher Education… Read More
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AI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment [Long-Read from Zayed University event]
Last week, I visited Zayed University for the university’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) conference, where I offered a… Read More
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Assessment Headroom: Space, Choice and Creativity
During my deliberations and discussions about assessment and feedback over the summer, I’ve been thinking about something I’m calling headroom—the gap… Read More
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National Future Facing Learning Conference: Slide Deck
It’s been a busy time being ‘out and about’ at different events and giving talks. This is a richly rewarding… Read More
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Slide Deck: Authentic Assessment and AI … Let’s Get Critical
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the University of Brighton’s Annual Education and Student experience conference (#BrightLearn23).… Read More
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Striking a Balance: Integrating AI into Assessment Practices
How might AI be used appropriately in assessment in a higher education context? [includes some sketched examples]. Read More
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AI and Assessment in Higher Education: Reflections
*Disclaimer – this article was written with GPT, but not by GPT – explanation within. There has been a great… Read More
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Expanded Assessment Top Trumps
Last year I devised some assessment ‘Top Trumps’ cards which detailed 30 possible assessment types with the aim of starting… Read More
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Binary Choices? Authentic Assessment vs Traditional
I have been struck recently by the way that authentic assessment is often simplistically contrasted with ‘traditional assessment.’ A recent… Read More
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Assessment change at scale: Reflections
Earlier in 2021 I talked about the importance of needing to learn from the pandemic, and not simply go back… Read More
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Learning from a time of crisis: A summer reflection
This piece summarises some key points from my reflective Keynote at HEFI’s 2021 Annual conference . The last eighteen months… Read More