self-assessment – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading: Emerson (2026) on ““It Honestly Made Me Want to Work Harder”: Student Evaluation of Using Ungrading in an Online Asynchronous Course”

mglessmer — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:09:23 +0000

As I am thinking more and more about the details of our upcoming MOOC on “Teaching for Sustainability”, I am less and less convinced that I actually want to have automated certification at the end. So Emerson (2026) on ““It Honestly Made Me Want to Work Harder”: Student Evaluation of Using Ungrading in an Online Asynchronous […]

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Currently reading Ross et al. (2024) on “Reflective writing as summative assessment in higher education: A systematic Review”

mglessmer — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:34:43 +0000

Reflective writing comes up a lot as The Solution to fix all kinds of problems related to students possibly not engaging and using GenAI to write their assignments etc.. If they had to write a reflection on their learning, they would surely have to engage, right? Wrong. Of course GenAI can write nice reflections if […]

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

mglessmer — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:52:51 +0000

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 to master in itself to support future learning, or part of measuring learning outcomes in summative assessment. Nieminen & Boud (2025) conduct a meta-review of […]

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