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Currently reading Carless (2009) on “Trust, distrust and their impact on assessment reform”

June 29, 2025

Since reading Macfarlane’s chapter the other day, I am thinking a lot about the influence of institutional policies (rather than teacher actions in direct contact with students) on trust. Now…

Currently reading Timperley & Schick (2025): “Assessment as pedagogy: inviting authenticity through relationality, vulnerability and wonder”

June 26, 2025

When I read about “eliciting wonder and joy via invitations to see the world anew” in the abstract, I knew this article would be squeezed in before I continue with…

Currently reading Nieminen & Boud (2025) on “Student self-assessment: a meta-review of five decades of research”

May 29, 2025

There are wildly differing understandings of what student self-assessment can and should do. It can be part of supporting the learning process in formative assessments or as a valuable skill…

Reading on cheating and grading (Henslee et al., 2025; and Swanson et al., 2025)

April 13, 2025

I have such a backlog of wave watching pics that I really need to blog more… Two articles today, the first one on “Students’ Perceptions of Self and Peers Predict…

Reading about assessment for inclusion and distinctiveness

March 22, 2025

I have had the pdf of the article ‘There was very little room for me to be me’: the lived tensions between assessment standardisation and student diversity” by Nieminen et…

Currently reading: Tai et al. (2022) on “Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design”

March 12, 2025

I just read this really interesting and important article about “assessment for inclusion, which seeks to ensure diverse students are not disadvantaged through assessment practices” by Tai et al. (2022).…

“The educational integrity enforcement pyramid: a new framework for challenging and responding to student cheating” by Ellis & Murdoch (2024)

March 8, 2025

When Rachel writes she agrees that an article is brilliant and important and a ’must read’ for anyone in higher ed involved in/concerned about academic integrity and assessment security, guess…

Unsurprising but important research: there is a sequential bias based on order in which work is presented and then graded in learning management systems (after Wang et al., 2024)

September 26, 2024

My awesome colleague Rachel Forsyth (of our amazing “trust” paper) sent me a message saying “unsurprising but important research” and then a link to Wang et al. (2024), and that…

Attempting to Assess Key Competencies in Sustainability

September 12, 2024

In this post, I am bringing together a bunch of thoughts and literature, and try to provide an idea of how to assess key competencies in sustainability. Wish me luck!…

Currently reading: “Sustainable assessment revisited” (Boud & Soler, 2016)

September 9, 2024

“Sustainable assessment” is about making assessment useful to learning beyond the frame of the course it is related to, not just in terms of retaining the learnt information and skills…

Thinking about assessing sustainability competencies

August 21, 2024

Current goal: Figuring out how to do assessment of sustainability competencies for a pass/fail course (where the fail option is an actual option*).

Currently reading about authenticity in assessment (Ajjawi et al., 2024)

May 16, 2024

Time for another iEarth Journal Club article summary, this time about authenticity in assessment!

Operationalising and assessing sustainability competencies (some ideas from Wiek et al. (2016) and Redman et al. (2020))

March 8, 2024

We put a lot of effort into teaching for sustainability, but whether or not we are actually successful in doing so remains unclear until we figure out a way to…

Prompt engineering and other stuff I never thought I would have to teach about

October 16, 2023

Last week, I thought a very intensive “Introduction to Teaching and Learning” course where we — like all other teachers everywhere — had to address that GAI has made many…

Currently reading: “The impact of grades on student motivation” (Chamberlin et al., 2023)

October 3, 2023

An argument that I encounter a lot is that student assignments need to be graded in order for students to put in any effort at all. But is that true?…

Currently reading: “Teaching with rubrics: the good, the bad, and the ugly” (Andrade, 2005)

October 2, 2023

Doing my reading for the monthly iEarth journal club… Thanks for suggesting yet another interesting article, Kirsty! This one is “Teaching with rubrics: the good, the bad, and the ugly” (Andrade,…

Currently reading: “Beyond open book versus closed book: a taxonomy of restrictions in online examinations.” by Dawson, Nicola-Richmond, & Partridge (2023)

June 28, 2023

If we want to do a valid assessment of what a specific student can do, we need to know what information they had available when producing the artifact we are…

“Mandatory coursework assignments can be, and should be, eliminated!” currently reading Haugan, Lysebo & Lauvas (2017)

March 13, 2023

The claim in this article’s title, “Mandatory coursework assignments can be, and should be, eliminated!”, is quite a strong one, and maybe not fully supported by the data presented here.…

“Confident Assessment in Higher Education”, by Rachel Forsyth (2023)

February 7, 2023

I am so lucky to work with so many inspiring colleagues here at Lund University, and today I read my awesome colleague Rachel Forsyth’s new book on “confident assessment in…

Eight criteria for authentic assessment; my takeaways from Ashford-Rowe, Herrington & Brown (2014)

June 15, 2022

“Authentic assessment” is a bit of a buzzword these days. Posing assessment tasks that resemble problems that students would encounter in the real world later on sounds like a great…

Reducing bias and discrimination in teaching: an annotated, incomplete — WORK IN PROGRESS! — list of references

June 2, 2022

Already at the time of posting, I have added to my to-read list for an updated version of this post. Please let me know of any additional literature I should…

Using peer feedback to improve students’ writing (Currently reading Huisman et al., 2019)

May 7, 2022

I wrote about involving students in creating assessment criteria and quality definitions for their own learning on Thursday, and today I want to think a bit about involving students also in…

Co-creating rubrics? Currently reading Fraile et al. (2017)

May 5, 2022

I’ve been a fan of using rubrics — tables that contain assessment criteria and a scale of quality definitions for each — not just in a summative way to determine…

Letting students choose the format of their assessment

November 8, 2021

I just love giving students choice: It instantly makes them more motivated and engaged! Especially when it comes to big and important tasks like assessments. One thing that I have…

Assessing participation

October 29, 2014

One example of how to give grades for participation. One of the most difficult tasks as a teacher is to actually assess how much people have learned, along with give them a…

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Currently reading Carless (2009) on “Trust, distrust and their impact on assessment reform”

Currently reading Timperley & Schick (2025): “Assessment as pedagogy: inviting authenticity through relationality, vulnerability and wonder”

Currently reading Nieminen & Boud (2025) on “Student self-assessment: a meta-review of five decades of research”

Reading on cheating and grading (Henslee et al., 2025; and Swanson et al., 2025)

Reading about assessment for inclusion and distinctiveness

Currently reading: Tai et al. (2022) on “Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design”

“The educational integrity enforcement pyramid: a new framework for challenging and responding to student cheating” by Ellis & Murdoch (2024)

Unsurprising but important research: there is a sequential bias based on order in which work is presented and then graded in learning management systems (after Wang et al., 2024)

Attempting to Assess Key Competencies in Sustainability

Currently reading: “Sustainable assessment revisited” (Boud & Soler, 2016)

Thinking about assessing sustainability competencies

Currently reading about authenticity in assessment (Ajjawi et al., 2024)

Operationalising and assessing sustainability competencies (some ideas from Wiek et al. (2016) and Redman et al. (2020))

Prompt engineering and other stuff I never thought I would have to teach about

Currently reading: “The impact of grades on student motivation” (Chamberlin et al., 2023)

Currently reading: “Teaching with rubrics: the good, the bad, and the ugly” (Andrade, 2005)

Currently reading: “Beyond open book versus closed book: a taxonomy of restrictions in online examinations.” by Dawson, Nicola-Richmond, & Partridge (2023)

“Mandatory coursework assignments can be, and should be, eliminated!” currently reading Haugan, Lysebo & Lauvas (2017)

“Confident Assessment in Higher Education”, by Rachel Forsyth (2023)

Eight criteria for authentic assessment; my takeaways from Ashford-Rowe, Herrington & Brown (2014)

Reducing bias and discrimination in teaching: an annotated, incomplete — WORK IN PROGRESS! — list of references

Using peer feedback to improve students’ writing (Currently reading Huisman et al., 2019)

Co-creating rubrics? Currently reading Fraile et al. (2017)

Letting students choose the format of their assessment

Assessing participation

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